noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a membership card
▪ Do you have a library membership card?
a membership fee (=a fee to become a member of a club or organization)
▪ The gym’s yearly membership fee is £250.
closed membership
▪ The golf club has closed membership.
club membership
▪ Club membership costs £300 per year.
renew sb’s contract/licence/membership etc
▪ I need to renew my passport this year.
resign your membership
▪ He recently resigned his membership of the National Rifle Association.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ Participants must enroll in advance and pay a $ 40 annual membership fee.
associate
▪ Interested parties have the choice of full club membership for £10,000 or associate membership for £2,500.
free
▪ This scheme is beginning now and therefore also gives three months extra free membership.
▪ All winners receive a year's free membership.
▪ Free parking. Free club membership.
▪ Within a fortnight, the committee had reconvened and given my father free life membership.
▪ We hold our hands up and will be writing to him to offer a year's free membership.
▪ Do remember that anyone who becomes a member now gets free membership until December 31st.
full
▪ The annual subscription would increase from overseas to the full membership rate. referred to the capital needed to set it up.
▪ But it also reserves the right to do so by insisting on full membership for them, which includes nuclear deterrence.
▪ The vast majority of members had opted for the full price membership.
▪ Or did it do the best it could from an ultraconservative group of selections given by the full membership?
▪ As we also noticed in chapter 3, we can not predict the full membership of the set on phonological grounds.
▪ So he threw open the gates and welcomed all baptized persons into full church membership.
▪ At that stage, the pressures for full membership are bound to mount at home and overseas.
total
▪ The Institute of Directors has a total membership of 33,500, only 2,600 of them women.
▪ CareFirst reported that its total membership in 2000 grew by 8.1 percent -- to 2.8 million -- over the previous year.
▪ Aldermen were indirectly elected by the councillors for a six-year term and comprised one-quarter of the total council membership.
▪ Mike Johnson, a Phoenix-area computer engineer who represents several militias, puts the total membership at 2, 000.
▪ The electorate is the total corporate membership of the Association.
▪ Golf, for instance, has a relatively high total cost because membership and equipment costs are relatively high.
▪ Only twenty-seven new members had been enrolled since the Leeds Congress, and the total membership still stood at less than one hundred.
union
▪ Now union membership is in decline, and budgets are tight.
▪ The new leaders vowed to change the national trend of declining union membership.
▪ They saw an aging union membership and no new blood coming in.
■ NOUN
card
▪ Club 2000 features an Access Control System which enables members to book and use facilities with a single magnetic strip membership card.
▪ Once there, just show your membership card and take a locker.
▪ And there was the mystifying membership card for the Caravan Club of Great Britain.
▪ Susskind Eikhl had said that he could get me a temporary membership card in the Writers' Club.
▪ Letters, membership cards, bills, receipts.
▪ There is no membership card or secret handshake.
▪ They might even give me a guest membership card, who could tell?
church
▪ But church membership has plunged from nearly 8,000 in 1984 to about 2,000.
▪ Emerson broke with the mere conventions of church membership.
▪ It is precisely such initiatives from denominations that are needed if the decline in church membership is to be halted.
▪ Excommunication also remained out of the question because much of the Church membership stood in awe of these exploits.
▪ The first step was to enrol as a soldier, the Army equivalent of church membership.
▪ He complained that newcomers forgot to bring church membership certificates along, a sure sign that they expected no church at all.
▪ This phase of religious intensification began in the late 1950s and early 1960s when church membership began to grow across all denominations.
▪ So he threw open the gates and welcomed all baptized persons into full church membership.
fee
▪ Create additional revenue from membership fees 5.
▪ Participants must enroll in advance and pay a $ 40 annual membership fee.
▪ His church urgently needs repair, and compulsory membership fees would help keep it out of debt.
▪ A health care consumer council would be created and would include anyone over age 16 who paid a $ 10 membership fee.
▪ And as the lifeboats are run entirely on voluntary contributions and membership fees, the £6 you give to us is vital.
▪ A temporary membership fee is $ 5, an annual fee about $ 25.
▪ The rest of the cash comes from sponsorship, membership fees, donations and ticket sales.
party
▪ Immediately after his election Kucan announced that he would renounce his party membership for the duration of his four-year term.
▪ In most countries these activists are members of political parties, although party membership is not necessarily synonymous with political activism.
▪ Nearly 80 percent of Party membership was unemployed, with serious effects on Party finance and organization.
▪ Lamm said one of the specific promises he got from Perot was that he would be given the Reform Party membership list.
▪ In early 1931 Party membership dropped to 2,500, the lowest level in its history.
▪ Party policy and the implications of party membership were less than clear.
▪ But they are banned from party membership and can not vote for the party at election time.
▪ However, the number of people willing to make the commitment to Communist party membership remained disproportionately small.
■ VERB
apply
▪ Britain has also persuaded our partners to welcome new countries who apply for Community membership.
▪ After I had published a dozen pieces, I could apply for full membership.
▪ This does not apply to membership or employment in any public body, e.g., an electricity authority.
▪ She says she once applied for membership in the party, but never knew whether she had been accepted.
▪ A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership.
▪ It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership.
▪ The Society has also applied for membership of the Association of Independent Museums.
▪ Further honours awaited him at Bologna, where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica.
include
▪ It had been further modified to include in its membership all four university resident tutors and six education officers from participating LEAs.
▪ Moreover, far from excluding anyone, this would be a way of including the existing membership of the individual groupings.
increase
▪ We have actually increased our individual membership which is really a marvellous achievement.
▪ Our aim is, of course, to attract newcomers to our classes and to increase membership.
▪ Our most important target for 1986 is to increase membership of the Society.
▪ Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
▪ Already some teachers have thought and acted upon ingenious schemes to increase membership and to make ourselves more financially self-supporting.
▪ His union will spend £1.5m over the next two years in an attempt to increase individual membership.
▪ Any private union good or service whose level is increasing in membership generates similar predictions. l 3.
renew
▪ Please, once again, remind all your present members to renew membership and try to enrol as many new members as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Membership has dropped by 500,000 since 1986.
▪ Membership is limited to the under-40s.
▪ Canada's membership of NATO
▪ Did you renew your membership in the sailing club?
▪ Obviously the veterans' association has a rather old and declining membership.
▪ The membership was totally against admitting women to the club.
▪ The Bishop's Stortford Photographic Society now has a membership of over 50.
▪ To qualify for membership, you must be 55 or older.
▪ What is the cost of membership?
▪ When you join the society, you will be issued a membership card.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ask at the Box Office for membership details the next time you are in town.
▪ Did Winchester have a right of appeal apart from membership?
▪ How have you managed to make use of your membership of the House of Lords in support of our national heritage?
▪ That is, membership of an exchange rate union is incompatible with the pursuit of an independent monetary policy.
▪ The membership of the Association totals more than 700 across the country.
▪ Today, it has a membership of over one thousand.
▪ Wesleyan membership in 1816 was 189,777 to which the breakaway New Connexion added only 8,146.