associate
IPA: ʌsˈoʊsiʌt
noun
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- (slang) An associate's degree.
verb
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
adjective
- Joined with another or others and having lower status.
- Having partial status or privileges.
- Following or accompanying; concomitant.
- (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
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Examples of "associate" in Sentences
- He is associated with the gourmand.
- Associational Akhu are the other Akhu associated with an individual.
- The Society is an associate member of the International Actuarial Association.
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