I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a founder member (= one who helped start an organization )
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He was a founder member of the African National Congress.
founder member
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
member
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He was a founder member of the Junior Ministers' Convention in 1888.
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McLachlan was a founder member of the Association of Public Analysts and one of the early presidents of that body.
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In 1884 he became a founder member of the Art Workers' Guild.
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She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial.
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I am surprised that the city government has not accepted our proposal to be our founder member .
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Mr Blinco was a founder member of the Coventry Reminiscence Theatre and he is currently working on a one-man show.
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Registration required a minimum of 100 founder members .
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In 1911 he was a founder member of the Photomicrographic Society, whose Barnard medal he endowed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The shop is still run by the founder and his two sons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was thus the founder of physics teaching in Oxford University.
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In it the founders dissolved also their own presbytery and headed back for their model to the ideal primitive church.
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Larry Madden, founder of a liturgical think tank.
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This is where many of the founders of industrial Prague rest.
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This Jesuit was not only a profound preacher, but the founder of orphanages and improver of prison conditions.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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According to court records, Dubroff's business was foundering and he was facing eviction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1992 her marriage was foundering.
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Detail does matter because concepts which are excellent in their general sweep can founder on a small matter of detail.
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He has extracted land and money from business interests, but his revolutionary experiment has foundered from the start.
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His business had started to founder and his company had gone into insolvent liquidation.
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The will and morale and community of its people can founder .