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associate
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Adjective
  • having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status
    • an associate member
    • an associate professor
Noun
  • a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
  • any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
    • first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate
  • a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
    • associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners
  • a friend who is frequently in the company of another
    • drinking companions
    • comrades in arms
  • a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
    • he had to consult his associate before continuing
Verb
  • bring or come into association or action
    • The churches consociated to fight their dissolution
  • keep company with; hang out with
    • He associates with strange people
    • She affiliates with her colleagues
  • make a logical or causal connection
    • I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
    • colligate these facts
    • I cannot relate these events at all
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