associate

1. 1

   Joined with another or others and having lower status.not-comparable

   • The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
2. 2

   Having partial status or privileges.not-comparable

   • He is an associate member of the club.
3. 3

   Following or accompanying; concomitant.not-comparable

4. 4

   Connected by habit or sympathy.datednot-comparable

   • associate motions

1. 1

   A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.

   • Allow me to introduce my business associates, Alice and Bob, who are senior VPs for ops and strategy, respectively.
   • Associates must wash hands before returning to work
2. 2

   Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.

3. 3

   A companion; a comrade.

4. 4

   One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.

5. 5

   A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.

6. 6

   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).

7. 7

   A casual friend, acquaintance

syn. adjunct · associate · business partner · cohort · colaborer /colabourer · collaborator · colleague · compeer · confrere · consociate · coworker /co-worker · fellow

1. 1

   To join in or form a league, union, or association.intransitive

2. 2

   To spend time socially; keep company.intransitive

   • She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
   • Before the race he associated only with other skiers.
3. 3

   To join as a partner, ally, or friend.transitive

   • He associated his name with many environmental causes.
4. 4

   To connect or join together; combine.transitive

   • particles of gold associated with other substances
5. 5

   To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.transitive

   • I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
6. 6

   To endorse.reflexive

   • She refused to associate herself with the petition.
7. 7

   To be associative.

8. 8

   To accompany; to be in the company of.obsoletetransitive

   • Friends should associate friends in grief and woe

ant. disassociate