Definition of "membership"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural memberships
verb
third-person singular simple present memberships, present participle membershipping, simple past and past participle membershipped
(transitive, sociolinguistics) To classify (someone) as belonging to a certain group or community.
Quotations
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 liberal, a gardener, a bridge player.
1975 April, Malcolm Coulthard, “Discourse Analysis in English – A Short Review of the Literature”, in Language Teaching, volume 8, number 2, page 83