Dictionary Definition
associate adj : having partial rights and
privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an
associate professor" [syn: associate(a)]
Noun
1 a person who joins with others in some
activity; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
2 a person who is frequently in the company of
another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar]
3 any event that usually accompanies or is
closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then
its thunderous associate"
4 a degree granted by a two-year college on
successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn:
associate
degree]
Verb
1 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" [syn: tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple]
2 keep company with; hang out with; "He
associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her
colleagues" [syn: consort, affiliate, assort]
3 bring or come into association or action; "The
churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Associate
English
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- Noun and adjective (these pronunciations can can also apply to
the verb):
- AHD: əsō'shiət or əsō'siət
- IPA: /əˈsəʊʃiət/ or /əˈsəʊsiət/(RP), /əˈsoʊʃiət/ or /əˈsoʊsiət/ (US)
- SAMPA: /@"s@USi@t/ or /@"s@Usi@t/ (RP), /@"soUSi@t/ or /@"soUsi@t/ (US)
Adjective
- Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
- An associate editor.
- Having partial
status or privileges.
- An associate member of the club.
- Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Noun
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Translations
A person united with another or others in an
act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague
A companion; a comrade
- Finnish: kumppani
One that habitually accompanies or is associated
with another; an attendant circumstance
A member of an institution or society who is
granted only partial status or privileges
Verb
- To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- To spend time socially; keep company.
- She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
- To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- To connect or join together; combine.
- To connect in the mind
or imagination
- "I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn." - John Keats
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
To join in or form a league, union, or
association
- Finnish: yhdistää, liittää, assosioida
To spend time socially
- Finnish: seurustella, viettää aikaa
- Dutch: omgaan
To join as a partner, ally, or friend
To connect or join together; combine
To connect in the mind or imagination
- Dutch: associëren
Verb
associate- Form of Second-person plural present tense, associare
- Form of Second-person plural imperative, associare#Italian|associare
- Form of Second-person plural present subjunctive, associare
Extensive Definition
Associate may refer to:
- A business valuation concept.
- A term used by some companies instead of employee.
- A term used to signify an independent (often self employed) person working as if directly employed by the company of which they are an associate. Such a person may be an associate of more than one company.
- The term for the lowest level of attorney in a United States law firm. See Associate (business rank)
- Associate Justice, a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice.
- Judge's associate: an assistant to a Judge in an Australian Court (akin to a Judge's clerk in an American court).
- Associate's degree, a two-year educational degree.
- Associate company, an accounting and business valuation concept.
- Associate, a mathematical concept in ring theory.
- Associate, a person who has some dealings with another, possibly a friend. Often used for business partners.
- The Associate, a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg.
See also
associate in Japanese: アソシエイト
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Greek,
abettor, accessory, accompany, accomplice, accord, accouple, accumulate, ace, acquaintance, act in
concert, act together, affiliate, affiliate with,
affiliated, affiliation, agglutinate, agree, alliance, allied, ally, alter ego, amalgamate, amass, amigo, analogon, analogue, appearance, apply, articulate, assemble, assistant, assistant
professor, associate,
associate professor, associate with, associated, association, assort with,
attend, axis, band, band together, be acquainted
with, be friends, be in cahoots, be in league, be inseparable,
bedfellow, bedmate, belonger, bind, blend, bloc, bond, bosom buddy, bracket, bridge, bridge over, brother, brother-in-arms,
brotherhood,
buddy, bunch, bunch up, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, cabal, cahoots, camarade, card-carrier,
card-carrying member, cardholder, cement, cement a union, centralize, chain, chamberfellow, charter
member, chum, chum
together, chum with, circuit, clap together, classmate, clique, clique with, close copy,
close match, club, club
together, clubber,
clubman, clubwoman, coact, coaction, coadunate, coalesce, coalition, cognate, cohort, coincide, collaborate, collaboration, collaborator, colleague, collect, collude, comate, combination, combine, come into, come
together, committeeman, companion, company, compatriot, compeer, complement, comprise, comrade, concatenate, concert, concomitant, concord, concur, confederate, conference, confidant, confidante, confrere, congenator, congener, conglobulate, congress, conjoin, conjugate, conjunction, connect, connect with, connection, connive, connotation, consociate, consolidate, consort, consort with, conspire, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, conviviality, cooperate, cooperation, coordinate, copartner, copulate, correlate, correlative, correspond, correspondent, cotton to,
counterpart,
couple, couple with,
cover, creep in, crony, do business with, draw a
parallel, dues-paying member, embrace, emeritus, encompass, enlist, enlistee, enroll, enrollee, enter, equate, equivalent, faction, familiar, fantasy, federalize, federate, federation, fellow, fellow student, fellowship, flock together,
fraternity,
fraternity man, fraternize, fraternize with,
friend, fuse, gaiety, gang, gang up, gather, get heads together, get
into, get together, girl friend, glue, go along with, go in
partners, go in partnership, go into, go partners, go with,
gossip, guild, guildsman, hang around with,
hang out with, hang together, happen together, harmonize, herd together,
hint, hit it off, hobnob
with, hold together, honorary member, hook up, hook up with,
hookup, identify, illusion, image, implication, include, initiate, insider, instructor, interest, interrelate, intimate, join, join forces, join fortunes
with, join in, join in fellowship, join together, join up, join up
with, join with, joiner,
joviality, keep
company with, keep together, kindred spirit, knot, know, lay together, league, league together, league
with, leaguer, lecturer, life member, like, likeness, link, loop, lump together, machine, make common cause,
marry, marshal, mass, match, mate, member, merge, messmate, mingle, mingle with, mirage, mix, mix with, mobilize, near duplicate,
obverse, old crony, one
of us, order, organization, organize, overtone, pair, pair off, pal, pal up with, pal with, parallel, parallelize, pard, pardner, partner, partnership, pendant, picture, piece together, play
ball, playfellow,
playmate, pledge, professor, professor emeritus,
pull together, put heads together, put together, reader, reciprocal, reciprocate, relate, relativize, retired
professor, ring, roll into
one, roommate, run in
couples, run with, schoolfellow, schoolmate, second self,
secondary, sect, see, shipmate, side partner,
sidekick, sign on, sign
up, similitude,
simulacrum, sister, sneak in, sociability, society, socius, sodality, solder, sorority girl, sorority
woman, sort with, soul mate, span, splice, stand together, stand up
with, stick together, subsidiary, such, suchlike, suggestion, sympathizer, synchronize, synergize, take in, take out
membership, take up membership, take up with, tally, tape, team up, team up with, team
with, teammate,
teamwork, the like of,
the likes of, throw in together, throw in with, tie, tie in, tie in with, tie up,
tie up with, tie-up, togetherness, tutor, twin, undertone, unify, union, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with,
vision, visiting
professor, wait on, wed,
weld, wheel, wing, work together, workfellow, yoke, yokefellow, yokemate