noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a band member
▪ He was one of the original band members.
a board member
▪ Two board members resigned earlier this year.
a cabinet member/a member of the cabinet
▪ Two senior cabinet members have resigned.
a cabinet member/a member of the cabinet
▪ Two senior cabinet members have resigned.
a cast member/a member of the cast
▪ Everyone remembers the cast members of 'Friends’.
a cast member/a member of the cast
▪ Everyone remembers the cast members of 'Friends’.
a club member/member of a club
▪ There’s a monthly magazine for club members.
a club member/member of a club
▪ There’s a monthly magazine for club members.
a coalition member
▪ Some coalition members are unhappy with the proposal.
a committed member of sth
▪ She is a committed member of the Scottish Socialist Party.
a committee member
▪ Four committee members did not attend the meeting.
a council member
▪ School council members are elected by their fellow students.
a family member/a member of the family
▪ The event was attended by many of his family members, including his children and grandchildren.
a family member/a member of the family
▪ The event was attended by many of his family members, including his children and grandchildren.
a gang member/a member of a gang
▪ Gang members are thought to be responsible for up to 20% of murders in the city.
a gang member/a member of a gang
▪ Gang members are thought to be responsible for up to 20% of murders in the city.
a member country (=belonging to a particular international organization)
▪ the member countries of the European Community
a member of a community
▪ It's good to feel that you are a member of a community.
a member of a department (=a person working in a department)
▪ All members of the Biology Department are actively committed to research.
a member of a group
▪ Jeremy was a member of a heavy metal group.
a member of a group/a group member
▪ Frank was invited to be a member of the group.
a member of a group/a group member
▪ Frank was invited to be a member of the group.
a member of a profession
▪ Some members of the medical profession supported the use of these drugs.
a member of parliament
▪ He was the Conservative member of Parliament for Edgbaston.
a member of the jury
▪ Only three members of the jury were women.
a member state (=a country that belongs to an organization of countries)
▪ The statement said that NATO would counter any attack against a member state.
a party member
▪ He’s been a Conservative party member for 20 years.
a senior member
▪ The President announced a reshuffle involving several senior members of his Cabinet.
a staff member (also a member of staff British English)
▪ At least one staff member should always be present.
a team member/a member of a team
▪ He's the eldest team member.
▪ He was a popular member of the team.
a team member/a member of a team
▪ He's the eldest team member.
▪ He was a popular member of the team.
a team member/a member of a team
▪ Team members meet on a regular basis.
a team member/a member of a team
▪ Team members meet on a regular basis.
an active member
▪ She became an active member of the Geological Society.
be a member of a circle
▪ He was a powerful member of a circle of financiers.
be a member of a class
▪ I suppose I’m a member of the middle class.
charter member
founder member
full professor/member/colonel etc
▪ Only full members have the right to vote.
leading members
▪ leading members of the government
long-serving member
▪ a long-serving member of the committee
long-standing member
▪ a long-standing member of the committee
Member of Parliament
members of the aristocracy
▪ dukes, earls, and other members of the aristocracy
members of the public
▪ Police warned members of the public not to approach the man, who may be armed.
new member/employee/student etc
▪ training for new employees
past president/member/winner etc
▪ a past president of the golf club
private member's bill
private member
rank-and-file members
▪ the rank-and-file members of the trade union
sitting member
▪ the sitting member for Newbury
the sole surviving/remaining member/child etc
▪ His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne at the age of one week.
union members
▪ union members
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ However in many branches active members who do actual work, not just attending committee meetings are few.
▪ Magill in Corte Madera, is president of club, which has 50 active members.
▪ He was an active member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool from 1837 onwards and served as its treasurer.
▪ She is an active member of her local League of Friends and Trefoil Guild.
▪ He was an active member of the Educational Publishers Council.
▪ Myfanwy is also an active member of the Red Cross and helps organise holidays for the disabled.
▪ Packford was an active member of his local Labour Party, sympathetic to the idea of the paper, and liked Keith.
▪ The first elected council contained such active and progressive members as Sidney Webb, eager to encourage housebuilding for the working classes.
full
▪ A player must serve a minimum of 12 consecutive months before becoming a full member.
▪ We are full members of both bodies.
▪ All full academic members of each laboratory have dual appointments, being fellows of colleges as well as having university posts.
▪ On the last Sunday in May 1943 were received as full members.
▪ In 1986 we became a full member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
▪ To become a full member, Britain would need to introduce several technical measures.
▪ The Berlin members were not full members in that they did not have voting powers.
individual
▪ The objectives will be personal to the individual members.
▪ But it does so at a high price, both for the organization and its individual members.
▪ There are two trio collective compositions and the other seven pieces are by individual members of the group.
▪ Telling individual members of the group that they were welcome at Trinity hardly seemed a seditious step.
▪ I should prefer that the appointments are not given to the governors of the banks of individual member states.
▪ Photographic Collections held by individual members of staff.
▪ It is for individual members and their firms to decide what subject matter is useful and relevant to their needs.
▪ At the same time, personal connections naturally developed between individual members of the affinity.
new
▪ Congratulations to all those who found the 320 new members, unfortunately there are over 450 people who have not renewed.
▪ On Tuesday, voters chose a new mayor and six new council members.
▪ It recruited 4,000 new members and raised £70,000.
▪ It is suggested that new members start at step one and proceed sequentially and at their own pace through the remaining steps.
▪ The management committee is also to beef up the criteria to be met by new members of the League.
▪ For a first run with a new member, the Boccherini quartet turned out to be a solid success.
▪ Last week state television reported that 24 candidates stood, and that eight new members were elected.
▪ Darnell McDonald is the newest member of the club.
other
▪ The other members will be: two barristers, two solicitors, two law teachers and eight lay members.
▪ Quartermaine is the oblivious pivot around which the other members of staff at the Cambridge language school circulate and occasionally collide.
▪ We have a different regime from the other 11 member states, one which is more competitive.
▪ We co-operate, share and exchange animals with other members to further breeding programmes of conservation importance.
▪ As they began to know me better, other members of the medical staff began to talk to me.
senior
▪ The good behaviour of our own Club members are still attending with some of the older juniors replacing retiring senior members.
▪ Mr Lorne, 49 years old, also will be a senior member of the Salomon control team.
▪ This Commission consists of five senior members of the judiciary and legal profession.
▪ This was done by comparing the shorthand notes of several senior lobby members who willingly handed them over.
▪ The activities brought together 18 senior members of the newly restructured operations group comprising all the east coast and New Zealand sites.
▪ The Group meets four times a year and draws its membership from senior members within the industry.
▪ But a senior member of the royal household told the Mirror that any inaccuracies in the diagrams were tiny.
▪ Such cases would go to a higher body, described as an upper-tier Industrial Court staffed by senior chairmen and members.
team
▪ The remaining budget was made up by personal contributions-student loans!-from the team members.
▪ The two perspectives, that of the manager and that of the team member, reveal disparate visions of these changes.
▪ He will be joined by team members Philip Chappell and Grant Cowley.
▪ That provides greater flexibility, and allows team members to trade off to avoid boredom.
▪ Many will find themselves undertaking research as peers, employees, managers, friends, lovers, family members and team members.
▪ Project team members will rent hotel conference rooms for the duration of the project, working on portable computers and call-forwarding.
▪ According to PacBell, team members were transformed by this experience into potential leaders.
union
▪ He is planning a new levy of 15 cents a month from each union member, to be spent on political campaigns.
▪ In this country they are probably two-thirds of our union members.
▪ Mr Spiers says that on a £400 loan paid over 24 weeks, a credit union member would pay interest at £11.62.
▪ Once people become unemployed, even if they were always good union members, they are out of the labor movement.
▪ Several thousand students and union members marched on the heavily fortified U.S.
▪ Federal law forbids a union member from taking his own case to court.
▪ Not only did he have the cops, but he would deputize certain Union members to walk around the hall with guns.
▪ She said the union members like the new system very much.
■ NOUN
band
▪ Gedge used the other band members as arbitrators of the material, especially Gregory who contributes his own bass lines to songs.
▪ No Stanford Band members may apply for work as San Francisco characters.
▪ The conservatism of the group's fans even spread to the band members themselves.
▪ The band members list Madness, Prince and Black Sabbath among their influences.
▪ Probably, some band members will contribute more than others.
▪ Spitzer said he was interested, met with parents of the band members and began making some plans.
▪ Dennis was developing as a songwriter, but the other band members were struggling to deliver quality material.
▪ By Nov. 18, band members delivered to the travel agent about $ 100, 000 to pay for the trip.
board
▪ Since Keith was a Board members of the committee, another Board member would be asked to sit on the committee.
▪ Nor has he been sharing with all board members the monthly reports he receives outlining the major budget problems Pima County faces.
▪ Turner, also a Time Warner board member, suggested more such deals may be in the works.
▪ For example, while annual reports usually name the chairman and board members they do not always reveal their salaries.
▪ Two other board members hovered behind him while he told Mrs Saulitis to obey orders.
▪ One of the board members asked Ted a very pointed question about several of our biggest cyclical accounts.
class
▪ Please encourage class members to lobby their local councils about cuts in classes, either personally or by petition.
▪ Please give a big build-up to your class members and encourage them to visit the exhibition bringing along families and friends.
▪ Please do your best to encourage your class members to come along.
▪ It is possible for teachers and/or class members to attend individual sessions which are taken by different people each week.
▪ Please tell all your class members to keep that Spring Bank Holiday week-end free.
▪ It is very helpful if the renewal cards can be used, so please take the opportunity to remind all class members.
▪ Existing class members can be very inventive if asked to help publicise a class.
committee
▪ Both Feingold and Abraham are committee members.
▪ Among other things, this bill strengthened the position of rank-and-file committee members visàvis chairmen.
▪ They pointed out that committee members were unrepresentative of the user body but got re-elected year after year.
▪ He listed the various committee members and what he thought of them.
▪ They wanted induction and training for all management committee members and for the management committee to take a lead in fund raising.
▪ None of the committee members in these crucial years specialized in criminal law or family law.
country
▪ Second, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty will stimulate the manufacturing sectors of member countries.
▪ However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past.
▪ Each member country has a quota which reflects its economic size and importance as a trading nation.
crew
▪ On board were 10 crew members and 30 passengers.
▪ Many who visit the ship, or hear a crew member speak at their church, soon sign on as volunteers.
▪ Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, the chief of staff, said 73 soldiers and crew members were killed.
▪ The buoy is somehow a fitting monument to the crew members who lost their lives here.
▪ Five crew members died in those crashes.
▪ Quite simply, the crew members would be paid a bonus for every crossing.
family
▪ It is easier to involve other family members and useful information may be gained by seeing a patient in his home.
▪ Since then I have seen it happen to many patients, family members, friends, and involved health professionals.
▪ It means caring in circumstances which threaten both the well-being of family members and the economic survival of the household.
▪ It was a bonehead mistake, but my family members stood by me.
▪ One of the issues for us here is who does this work and whether it is equitably distributed between different family members.
▪ More than 3 million children in the United States now live with grandparents or other family members.
▪ These people have lost their homes and family members have been killed.
▪ Agree upon a place where family members can meet if required.
founder
▪ He is a founder member of the Prison Reform Trust.
▪ He was a founder member of the Edinburgh Press Club, established more than 50 years ago.
▪ He was a founder member of the Company of Master Mariners.
▪ She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial.
▪ He was a founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1847 and its president in 1870-1.
▪ He is also a founder member and stage manager of the Calder Valley Junior theatre Society.
gang
▪ But other gang members warned my kids that I was to get slashed for grassing.
▪ He was cornered outside the school by three apparent gang members wearing red, the emblem of the Nortenos.
▪ Former gang members shall be given a chance to be patrol buddies in assisting in the protection of the neighbourhoods.
▪ The youth charged in his murder was a 16-year-old black gang member from the Newhallville section of New Haven.
▪ Some of the gang members got into the car while others sat on the vehicle's bonnet.
▪ He wants to create a task force for peace that would include former gang members.
▪ The gang members, the hit men in here are at the top of their tree.
▪ David and Falakah Fattah opened their own home in Philadelphia to 15 teenage gang members in 1969.
party
▪ Unused to internal democracy, party members continue to vote as their leadership obviously wishes them to vote.
▪ The party members attending the session here were mostly middle-aged or elderly California residents.
▪ He declared that he wanted opposition party members to join the new Cabinet.
▪ Her closest friends had all been Party members, and now none would speak to her.
▪ Although the move was defeated and the renationalisation policy endorsed, party members voted to remit the controversial proposal for further consideration.
▪ In a throwback to the days of Confucius, Jiang essentially wants party members to discover the joys of clean living.
▪ Political activism of party members also varies over time.
▪ Rabin polled 40.5 percent and Peres 34.5 percent of the votes of the 108,000 party members.
state
▪ The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community. 39.
▪ The directive applies only to objects illegally exported after 1 January 1993 unless the member state wishes to extend its obligations.
▪ The Cartalist view suggests that the fiscal authority of the member states will be significantly weakened.
▪ First, there is the residency requirement already mentioned, which member states can impose when handing out subsidies.
▪ This represents a significant political difficulty, since there are other member states who support the idea.
▪ Meanwhile, members states have undertaken to apply the substance of the rules.
▪ Each member State was under a duty to respect the international and independent character of the responsibilities of these staff.
■ VERB
become
▪ The headquarters of the League became a club where members could go for a drink and where Joyce served behind the bar.
▪ But I had not become a member of the church.
▪ We talked about the implications of the job and agreed on a salary, and I became a member of the bank.
▪ In time, she becomes almost a member of his family.
▪ Perhaps existing members can persuade their families to become members to support their Medau interest.
elect
▪ Except for the head of the house, who was chosen by the housemaster, the Library elected its own members.
▪ Soon after his arrival, Luks was elected an honorary member of the Boston Art Club.
▪ The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
▪ Borland also elected a new board member, Harry J.. Saal.
▪ In 1872 he was elected a life honorary member of the Manchester Association of Engineers.
▪ For example, an elected member of a board of education would be considered a public official.
▪ The team elected by Labour members yesterday bore some resemblance to the team the public might elect to take on the Tories.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fully paid-up member of sth
▪ Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
▪ At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
▪ Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
▪ Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
an affiliated organization/club/member etc
associate member/director/head etc
▪ Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director.
▪ Gross is an associate director at Woodbourne.
▪ He later became associate director of circulation planning and vice president and business manager.
▪ Mike McCarthy is associate director, head of sixth-form studies.
▪ The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
▪ These activities are available when you join the society as an associate member.
card-carrying member
▪ As a card-carrying member of the Wilderness Society, I do not advocate less pristine forest.
▪ George Spachtholz has been a proud, card-carrying member of the Loyal Order of the Moose for 45 years.
▪ How many of the extra women on the list are card-carrying members of the Conservative party?
paid-up member
▪ Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
▪ At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
▪ He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
▪ Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
▪ The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
▪ Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
▪ When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
the Honourable Gentleman/the Honourable Lady/my Honourable Friend/the Honourable Member
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 80% of union members are opposed to going on strike over this issue.
▪ Brooks is a very valuable member of the team.
▪ Dogs and wolves are both members of the same species.
▪ Is Switzerland a member of the European Union?
▪ She's a member of the local drama society.
▪ St. Joseph's church welcomes all new members.
▪ The club is hoping to attract more members.
▪ Tickets are $7 for members, and $10 for non-members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All council members donate their time, and the district being evaluated pays for travel, lodging, and food.
▪ How else can members of Congress assume a steady flow of campaign contributions?
▪ It will be the responsibility of member countries to prosecute those of their own ships which transgress the convention.
▪ Shares of computer equipment companies nationwide surged after several members of the industry reported earnings that exceeded expectations.
▪ The member of staff must report, but need not terminate, the relationship.
▪ These employees are paid based upon what they produce either individually or as members of small work groups.
▪ They now have to ballot their members before being able to call a strike.