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associate

Pronunciation: /əˈsəʊʃi.ət/

The English word “associate” has 19 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Joined with another or others and having lower status.
  2. Having partial status or privileges.
  3. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
  4. Connected by habit or sympathy.

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

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. To accompany; to be in the company of.

Etymology

From Middle English associat(e) (used participially as well as adjectively up to Early Modern English), from Latin associātus, the perfect passive participle of associō (“to join, unite”), from ad- + sociō, from socius (“shared, common, kindred”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

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