0 the state of belonging to a group or an organization -- членство
1 the people who belong to a group or an organization -- количество членов
Union membership is now over three million and rising.
Especially in the years before 1961, the memberships of state legislatures included significant numbers of returning members whose service was not continuous.
Second, and more importantly, conservation groups could capitalize on public outrage and swell the ranks of their memberships by effectively mobilizing support.
Typically, respondents cited paid-up memberships of between 100 and 250, and most suggested that attendance at the most recent meeting exceeded 50.
Most of these names were of newly recruited members ; apparently provincial records of older memberships were incomplete and unreliable and were still undergoing verification.
The eventual document guaranteed free association and ensured there would be no attempts to corporatize or make associational memberships obligatory.
The parties have become relatively institutionalised, with stable mass memberships, distinctive ideology and a signi®cant degree of intra-party democracy.
The legacies of previous regimes are reflected in organizational memberships today.
The most significant is that in 1984 only 27 per cent of respondents had no memberships and 73 per cent had one or none.
