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