0 a member of an organization who helped start the organization or became a member when it began --
1 a member of an organization who helped start the organization or became a member when it began --
2 one of the first members of a business, organization, etc., usually someone who helped start it: --
Campbell were to complete the charter members.
Loss of many charter members and debt accrued during the first two seasons caused the corps to go inactive before the start of the 1983 season.
Singer began his club with twenty-five charter members.
The club's first meeting attracted a crowd and 52 people joined as charter members.
Within a short time 61 of them became charter members and many more joined that first year.
The chapel was at the church's current location, and the first meeting had nineteen charter members.
She suggested the name based on the number of the charter members; she later became the organization's first president in 1930.
The public school system started around 1900, and five students became charter members of the first graduating class in 1905.
