associate
/əˈsəʊsi.ət/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- 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).
- To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- To spend time socially; keep company.
- (with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- To connect or join together; combine.
- To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
- Joined with another or others and having lower status.
- Having partial status or privileges.
- Following or accompanying; concomitant.
- Connected by habit or sympathy.
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