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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.
- Sjogren's syndrome "targets and destroys over time the exocrine glands responsible for tear production and saliva -- and is characterized by dryness of the mouth and eyes," said Dr. Michael Belmont, an associate professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at NYU Langone Medical Center and medical director for Hospital for Joint Diseases. Why Sjogren's syndrome caused Williams to quit U.S. open
- 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.
