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associate

/əˈsoʊʃi.ət/

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What does associate mean?

adjective

  1. Joined with another or others and having lower status.
  2. Having partial status or privileges.
  3. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
More meanings (17)

noun

  1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
  2. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
  3. A companion; a comrade.
  4. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
  5. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
  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. A casual friend, acquaintance
  8. (slang) An associate's degree.

verb

  1. To join in or form a league, union, or association.
  2. To spend time socially; keep company.
  3. To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
  4. To connect or join together; combine.
  5. To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
  6. To endorse.
  7. To be associative.
  8. (obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.

adjective

  1. (dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
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IPA pronunciation

/əˈsoʊʃi.ət/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/əˈsoʊsi.ət//əˈsoʊʃi.ɪt//əˈsoʊsi.ɪt//əˈsoʊʃieɪt//əˈsoʊsieɪt/
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At his return, Censorinus impeached him of extortion, for having exacted a vast sum of money from a well-affected and associate kingdom.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
He also informed me that our principal associate would be another boy whom he introduced by the--to me--extraordinary name of Mealy Potatoes.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
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Thus there are many cadets who would associate, etc., were they not restrained by the force of opinion of relatives and friends.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
I will not associate with any vegetable which is disreputable, or has not some quality that can contribute to my moral growth.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2671
This child died because of its anal malformation, which we notice is a frequent associate of malformations or duplicity of the penis.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747