tesseramento

membership registration

noun tes-seh-rah-MEN-toh Rare

Also means

card-issuing

Usage Note

Tesseramento refers specifically to the process of enrolling members in a party, union, club, or association and issuing them a membership card (tessera). It is masculine with a regular -i plural. It is distinctively Italian in flavour — closely tied to the culture of mass political parties and trade unions that defined twentieth-century Italian civic life.

Examples

"Il tesseramento al partito è aperto."

Natural Translation

Party membership registration is open.

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