membership

Definition of Membership in English :

1. membership, rank

the body of members of an organization or group

Example Sentences:
'they polled their membership'
'they found dissension in their own ranks'
'he joined the ranks of the unemployed'

2. membership

the state of being a member

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Membership

noun

1.

the members of an organization collectively

2.

the state of being a member

noun

1.

the state of being, or status as, a member

with in or, in Brit. usage, of

2.

members collectively, as of an organization

3.

the number of members

n.

1. The state of being a member.

2. The total number of members in a group: an organization with a growing membership.