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US
/əˈsoʊsiˌeɪt, əˈsoʊsiət, əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt, əˈsoʊʃiət/
]
VERB
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keep company with; hang out with
He associates with strange people
She affiliates with her colleagues -
make a logical or causal connection
colligate these facts
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
I cannot relate these events at all -
bring or come into association or action
The churches consociated to fight their dissolution
NOUN
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
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a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
he had to consult his associate before continuing -
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 -
any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate -
a friend who is frequently in the company of another
drinking companions
comrades in arms
ADJECTIVE
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having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status
an associate member
an associate professor
How To Use associate In A Sentence
- Sudden sniffing death is particularly associated with abuse of butane, propane and chemicals in aerosols.
- It should also be noted that there are no contact-period materials from the Johnson site and that the only historic materials recovered date to the nineteenth century and did not occur in the provenances associated with the figurines.
- We will be frequently using these orders to combat vice and the directly-associated crime.
- Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
- Upper genital tract infection associated with intrauterine contraceptive devices is temporally linked to the insertion of the device.
- Contaminant fluxes associated with the process of frazil ice formation in the Kara sea are much smaller than worst-case estimates.
- But the type of deafness I have inherited is associated at first with excessive along with diminished hearing, hypo - and hyperacusis combined. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3
- We felt that compared with placentas with focal lesions, placentas with well-established HEV would more reliably reflect associated events.
- He will remain affiliated with the firm as a special associate director.
- Roderick Little, a University of Michigan biostatistician, will become associate director for statistical methodology and standards at the Census Bureau beginning in September. Robert Groves Names Roderick Little, U Of Mich. Statistician, To New Census Post
