membership

noun

Definition of membershipnext
1
as in community
the people who belong to a group or organization Club leaders are elected by the membership.

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2
as in roster
the number of people in a group or organization The club's membership has been around 400 for the past several years.

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3
as in association
the state of being a member of a group or organization We allowed our membership in the discount club to lapse.

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Recent Examples of membership Review a prospect’s past giving, volunteer work, board memberships and public interests to understand what truly motivates them. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Ukrainians expect evidence that the path toward EU membership is irreversible. — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026 And Robb Report got an exclusive first look at the membership program and the app behind it. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2026 The institutions are young, military commitments are still being defined, and the maritime coalition’s broad membership does not necessarily translate into a willingness to deploy forces. — John Calabrese, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for membership
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  1. community
  2. roster
  3. association
  4. organization
  5. count
  6. affiliation
  7. team
  8. enrollment
Noun
  • Hochul's announcement came shortly after dozens of students and community members spent hours demanding transparency and accountability from university leaders at a forum sponsored by Cornell's student government.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • According to a blog post on Friday by Matt Garman, Amazon’s CEO of its cloud computing arm, Amazon has already spent more than $1 billion in communities with a large data center presence over the past three years.
    — Anne D'Innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
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  • Just three other organizations had more players in the WBC, and only two had more participants from their 40-man rosters than the Royals — who had nine, and 14 overall.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026
  • There were plenty of other encouraging performances from throughout the Heat’s roster in the preseason opener.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of roster
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  • The clash added another layer to a campaign in which el Sayed’s positions on foreign policy and his associations with prominent progressive figures have become points of contention.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The hospitality and hotel sector is one of Europe’s largest employers, with more than 10 million people working across 2 million businesses, according to data from Hotrec, the association of hotels, restaurants, bars, and cafés in Europe.
    — Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of association
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  • There is a subset of incoming college first year students, men and women, who find these organizations really appealing, and some of it is entirely understandable.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The county’s options for the facility range from holding Discovery Place in default and taking over the nature museum to accepting Discovery Place’s terms and giving the organization decades to repay the debt, staff said.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of organization
Noun
  • Four-hundred thread count Egyptian cotton and fluffy down duvets make for plush beds, and each room comes with posh bathrobes and slippers.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In the shutdown, 994 of its 1,147 federal employees were placed on administrative leave and 594 of the 602 contract workers were cut, according to the agency’s count.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of count
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  • Of new voter registrations over the past two years, more than 560,000 joined the Republican Party, almost 370,000 registered without party affiliation and just about 328,000 registered as Democrats.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
  • However, party enrollment is not necessary to vote in the midterm elections in November, and party affiliation does not limit you to candidates from that party in a general election.
    — TIME Staff, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of affiliation
Noun
  • The Channels & Streaming Iberia team is tasked with supporting the company’s growing FAST, streaming and advertising operations across Spain and Portugal.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Huh said the team set out to keep the emotional intimacy of Kim’s story while building a world that feels cinematic.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of team
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  • College enrollments are down and tuition revenue has dropped, plunging many universities into the red, despite increasing their prices.
    — Reynald Fasciaux, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • But Democrats believe that the individual stocks lack statutory authority and that the automatic enrollment could prevent savers with religious or other concerns with the stocks from opting out, House aides told Semafor.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
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