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association
/əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
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Stress AY before shun.
The preceding consonant can be s or sh. Keep the last syllable light.
5 syllables · Stress on syllable 4
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“The association arranged a community event.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does association mean?
noun
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
More meanings (3)
noun
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
- A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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There must be the same immediate association of thought, though she was very far from conceiving it to be of equal pain.
To this she gives all her time, aided by an executive secretary who takes charge of the routine work of the association.
More book examples (3)
Finally M. Reybaud has loudly declared himself a partisan of competition, which means that he has decidedly abandoned the principle of association.
In all these variations of personality it is not the intelligence which is modified, but the feelings, whose association forms the character.
Sometimes the association of ideas lies below the surface, drawing from the hidden wells of poetic illusion which are sunk in childhood.