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
- Whit, the only place people can associate is in their dorm room?
- Laura (southernxyl): Whit, the only place people can associate is in their dorm room?
- "Most Americans who have heard the name associate her with only a few lines of text that she wrote."
- real estate to pursue filmmaking, proudly showed off his new business card with his name, and the title "associate producer" of "Trattoria."
- Is a New York attorney allowed to create a website to solicit for cases in another state when no partner or associate is admitted in that state?
- One feature I would like to implement is being able to associate a short word followed by an F-key, eg F12, with a window from which I can select some action.
- Instead, the deal went ahead with Ari Hudaya , a long-term associate of Bumi's founders, the Bakrie family, as chief executive of both Bumi and PT Bumi Resources.
- Durand, a man who had a powerful affinity with banks and who was a three-time ex-convict, was by definition a man of dubious reputation, a reputation confirmed by the fact that he was a close and longtime term associate of Cronkite.
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