charter member

1. 1.

   one of the original members when an organization was founded

   Broadermember

Questions about charter member

What does charter member mean?

charter member means "one of the original members when an organization was founded".

Is charter member a common word?

charter member is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.