membership Význam & definícia

Význam membership v slovenčine

• 0 the state of belonging to an organization:

  • You have to apply for membership of the sports club.

  • a membership fee/card

  • Annual membership (= the amount you have to pay to join a particular organization for one year) is £25.

  • Our membership is/are divided on the issue.

  • The society has a very large membership (= number of members).

• 1 the state of belonging to an organization, or an agreement by which someone joins an organization:

  • [ U ] We applied for membership in the country club.

  • [ C ] Some fitness clubs sell lifetime memberships.

  • [ U ] We asked the membership to vote on the issue.

• 2 the state of belonging to a group or organization:

  • membership in sth He holds membership in a number of regional and national organizations.

  • membership of sth She has promised to use her influence and membership of a high-level advisory group to lobby for change.

  • apply/qualify for membership Employees need to have worked here for more than two years in order to qualify for membership of the scheme.

  • the cost/benefit of membership One of the benefits of membership is access to free legal advice.

  • board/union membership

  • EU/WTO/NATO membership

  • full/free membership

• 3 the number of people who belong to a group or organization:

  • The EU's membership has almost doubled since 2004.

  • have a membership of sth We currently have a membership of more than 11,000 professionals, professors, and students.

  • declining/falling membership Pooling resources will help us cope more easily with declining membership and revenues.

  • membership numbers/a membership base

  • membership declines/falls/goes down Membership in investment clubs has declined just like the stock market.

  • membership increases/rises/climbs Party membership has risen, by 3,000, for the first time in 20 years.

  • a decline/increase in membership We get a significant increase in membership each year, mostly because people read about us on the Internet.

  • expand/boost/restrict membership The appointment was made in the hope of strengthening finances and boosting membership.

• 4 members of a group or organization considered as a group:

  • The firm has failed to recognize and appreciate what our membership has contributed during the past four years.

  • Since the online group was formed just over a year ago, the membership has pretty much doubled every month.