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Associate   /əsˈoʊsiət/  /əsˈoʊsiˌeɪt/  /əsˈoʊʃiət/  /əsˈoʊʃiˌeɪt/   Listen
Associate

verb
(past & past part. associated; pres. part. associating)
1.
Make a logical or causal connection.  Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in.  "Colligate these facts" , "I cannot relate these events at all"
2.
Keep company with; hang out with.  Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort.  "She affiliates with her colleagues"
3.
Bring or come into association or action.  Synonym: consociate.
noun
1.
A person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.
2.
A friend who is frequently in the company of another.  Synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow.  "Comrades in arms"
3.
A person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise.
4.
Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another.
5.
A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies.  Synonym: associate degree.
adjective
1.
Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status.  "An associate professor"



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"Associate" Quotes from Famous Books



... vitality, known as "gummata," with a tendency to break down or ulcerate, may form in almost any part of the body, and the damage that occurs is considerable indeed. Various diseases result which the lay mind would not associate with syphilis, but it would be difficult to overestimate the resultant diseases that may occur in any organ of ...
— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health

... moved onward in his place with a careless air, listening as he went to the service for the dead. As soon as he had passed the door, his miserable associate was carried out; and the crowd beheld the rest. Barnaby would have mounted the steps at the same time, but he was restrained, as he was to ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... than those of a pecuniary nature, on both sides of the Atlantic, is to be ascribed more to the influence of joint-stock banks and manufacturing and railway companies, to the workings, in short, of what is called the principle of "associate action," than to any other one cause ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... The associate in New York proposed to Bullion the purchase of a controlling interest in a railroad; and Bullion, believing that the depression had nearly reached its limit, and that affairs would soon take a turn, agreed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

... myself, why not? Then I thought Dr. Rendall over. Also middle height, a moustache, and no particular accent. But then again, if I put on an accent, why not he? Then I thought over what I had learned of the laird. A cousin of the doctor's, a "damned queer fish," almost the only associate of this couple, and hard up. Ought I to go straight off ...
— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston


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