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membershipping

membershipping is the present participle and gerund of membership.

Meaning of membership

Verb

membership (third-person singular simple present memberships, present participle membershipping, simple past and past participle membershipped)

  1. (transitive) To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
    • Whatever the topic of the conversation the speaker must ‘membership’ his listener, put him into one of two or more mutually exclusive boxes. Each time a topic changes the listener must be re-membershipped, and during a conversation the same person may be membershipped as a doctor, a rugby player, a...1975 April, Malcolm Coulthard, “Discourse Analysis in English – A Short Review of the Literature”, in Language Teaching, volume 8, number 2, →DOI, page 83

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Questions about membershipping

What is membershipping the present participle and gerund of?
Membershipping is the present participle and gerund of membership.

Words near membershipping in the dictionary

  1. membership cards
  2. membership function
  3. membership functions
  4. membership marketing
  5. membershipped
  6. membershipping
  7. memberships
  8. memberwise
  9. membracid
  10. membracids
  11. membrain

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