Rotary Club
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- noun
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Club Rotario
- Join the Rotary Club.
- a local Rotary Club
- Rotary Club members
- Rotary Club meeting
Examples
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Young is involved with the Clayton County Rotary Club and served as president from 1995 to 1996.
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In behalf of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, I want to take this occasion of welcoming you to Waukegan.
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We go every year with the Rotary Club.
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What, like the Rotary Club?
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Schedule yourself to give a talk at the local Rotary Club.
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I'm getting an award at the Rotary Club.
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The New Rochelle Rotary Club has a history that goes back to 1919.
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About 18 months ago, I became President of the Rotary Club of Hagerstown, MD.
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Jodi worked very hard and got accepted to go on a one-year exchange with the Rotary Club to go to Finland.
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The Rotary Club organizes events to support local charities and promote community service.
Synonyms
A group of business people who help the local community and do charity work
Surface Forms
Morphology
Rotary + club
The element 'Rotary' is a capitalized proper name here and does not transparently mean 'rotating' or anything related to the literal verb/adjective; knowing 'club' as 'an association' is insufficient for inferring the specific sense 'an international service organization of local clubs.' As a fixed organizational name (often borrowed unchanged across languages), the overall meaning cannot be derived from the constituent words, so it is unpredictable for learners.
Etymology
Rotary Club comes from the early habit of members taking turns to host meetings in their offices, so the meeting place was 'rotated' from person to person and the group became known as a rotary club. That's why the name now means a group of professionals who meet to do community service.