- to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- to join as a companion, partner, or ally: to associate oneself with a cause.
- to unite; combine: coal associated with shale.
- to enter into union; unite.
- to keep company, as a friend, companion, or ally: He was accused of associating with known criminals.
- to join together as partners or colleagues.
- a person who shares actively in anything as a business, enterprise, or undertaking; partner; colleague; fellow worker: He consulted with his associates before proceeding further.
- a companion or comrade: my most intimate associates.
- a confederate; an accomplice or ally: criminal associates.
- anything usually accompanying or associated with another; an accompaniment or concomitant.
- a person who is admitted to a subordinate degree of membership in an association or institution: an associate of the Royal Academy.
- connected, joined, or related, especially as a companion or colleague; having equal or nearly equal responsibility: an associate partner.
- having subordinate status; without full rights and privileges: an associate member.
- allied; concomitant.
- to link or connect in the mind or imagination
- to keep company; mix socially
- to form or join an association, group, etc
- to consider in conjunction; connect
- to bring (a person, esp oneself) into friendship, partnership, etc
- to express agreement or allow oneself to be connected (with)
- a person joined with another or others in an enterprise, business, etc; partner; colleague
- a companion or friend
- something that usually accompanies another thing; concomitant
- a person having a subordinate position in or admitted to only partial membership of an institution, association, etc
- joined with another or others in an enterprise, business, etc; having equal or nearly equal status
- having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status
- accompanying; concomitant
