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English
Etymology
From Latin associō.
Pronunciation
- Verb: (these pronunciations can also apply to the noun and adjective)
- Noun and adjective:
- Hyphenation: as‧so‧ci‧ate
Adjective
associate (not comparable)
- Joined with another or others and having lower status.
The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
- Having partial status or privileges.
He is an associate member of the club.
- Following or accompanying; concomitant.
- (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, page 36:These associate ideas are gradually formed into habits of acting together, by frequent repetition, while they are yet separately obedient to the will; as is evident from the difficulty we experience in gaining so exact an idea of the front of St. Paul's church, as to be able to delineate it with accuracy, or in recollecting a poem of a few pages.
Derived terms
Translations
joined with others and having equal or near equal status
- Danish: med-
- Finnish: apulais-, vara- (near equal)
- Hungarian: társ-
- Japanese: 一緒にやっている (いっしょにやっている, issho ni yatte iru), 仲間の (ja) (なかまの, nakama no), 同僚の (ja) (どうりょうの, dōryō no)
- Korean: 연합(聯合)하다 (yeonhaphada), 한패(牌)의 (hanpae-ui), 동료(同僚)의 (dongnyo-ui)
- Manx: co-
- Maori: tuarua, teputi, tūhono
- Portuguese: associado (pt)
- Romanian: asociat (ro)
- Russian: свя́занный (ru) (svjázannyj)
- Ukrainian: пов'я́заний (uk) (povʺjázanyj)
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having partial status or privileges
following or accompanying
Noun
associate (plural associates)
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:The frowning lookes of fiery Tamburlaine,
That with his terrour and imperious eies,
Commands the hearts of his aſſociates, […]
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, 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.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
partner
- Belarusian: партнёр m (partnjór), партнёрка f (partnjórka), кампаньён m (kampanʹjón), кампаньёнка f (kampanʹjónka)
- Bulgarian: коле́га (bg) m (koléga), коле́жка f (koléžka), партньо́р m (partnjór), партньо́рка f (partnjórka)
- Catalan: associat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 同行 (zh) (tóngháng), 同事 (zh) (tóngshì)
- Danish: kompagnon (da) c, ledsager c
- Finnish: kumppani (fi), partneri (fi), kollega (fi), yhtiökumppani (fi), liikekumppani
- Greek:
- Ancient: μέτοχος m (métokhos)
- Hungarian: üzlettárs (hu)
- Japanese: 提携者 (ていけいしゃ, teikeisha)
- Korean: 제휴자(提携者) (jehyuja), 조합원(組合員) (ko) (johabwon), 동반자(同伴者) (ko) (dongbanja)
- Latin: collēga m
- Manx: coheshaghtagh m
- Maori: hoa mahi, hoa kaipakihi (In business)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ledsager m, kompanjong m
- Ottoman Turkish: اورتاق (ortak)
- Polish: wspólnik (pl) m, wspólniczka f, współpracownik (pl) m, współpracowniczka (pl) f, partner (pl) m, partnerka (pl) f
- Portuguese: associado (pt) m
- Romanian: partener (ro) m, asociat (ro) m
- Romansch: collavuratur m, collavuratura f
- Russian: партнёр (ru) m (partnjór), партнёрша (ru) f (partnjórša), напа́рник (ru) m (napárnik), напа́рница (ru) f (napárnica), компаньо́н (ru) m (kompanʹón), колле́га (ru) m or f (kolléga)
- Spanish: asociado (es) m
- Swahili: mshirika (sw)
- Swedish: följeslagare (sv) c, kompanjon (sv) c
- Turkish: iştirakçi (tr), ortak (tr), partner (tr)
- Ukrainian: партне́р (uk) (partnér), партне́рка f (partnérka), компаньйо́н m (kompanʹjón), компаньйо́нка f (kompanʹjónka)
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companion; comrade
- Bulgarian: друга́р (bg) m (drugár), друга́рка (bg) f (drugárka), партньо́р m (partnjór), партньо́рка f (partnjórka)
- Finnish: kumppani (fi), partneri (fi), kaveri (fi), toveri (fi)
- German: Weggefährte (de) m
- Hungarian: társ (hu), bajtárs (hu), kartárs (hu)
- Japanese: 仲間 (ja) (なかま, nakama), 同僚 (ja) (どうりょう, dōryō)
- Korean: 동료(同僚) (ko) (dongnyo), 패(牌) (ko) (pae), 친구(親舊) (ko) (chin'gu)
- Latin: socius (la) m, comes m
- Manx: cumraag m or f
- Maori: hoa haere
- Ottoman Turkish: قولداش (koldaş), یولداش (yoldaş), رفیق (refik), همراه (hemrah)
- Polish: kolega (pl) m
- Portuguese: colega (pt) m or f
- Romanian: coleg (ro), tovarăș (ro) m, camarad (ro) m
- Russian: компаньо́н (ru) m (kompanʹón), това́рищ (ru) m (továrišč), партнёр (ru) m (partnjór), партнёрша (ru) f (partnjórša)
- Spanish: compañero (es)
- Swahili: mshirika (sw)
- Ukrainian: компаньйо́н m (kompanʹjón), компаньйо́нка f (kompanʹjónka)
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one that habitually accompanies or is associated with another
member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges
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Verb
associate (third-person singular simple present associates, present participle associating, simple past and past participle associated)
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
He associated his name with many environmental causes.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
particles of gold associated with other substances
- Synonyms: attach, join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- 1819 September 21, John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds:
- I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II:He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as "cliff lifts," which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
1999 August 4-5, Congress, “Pt. 14”, in Congressional Record, volume 145, page 19343:Mr. President, I rise to associate myself with the remarks of my senior Senator from Louisiana who has led this fight successfully for many years
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Friends should associate friends in grief and woe
Antonyms
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Translations
to spend time socially
- Armenian: շփվել (hy) (špʻvel)
- Azerbaijani: oturub-durmaq (colloquial)
- Bulgarian: общувам (bg) (obštuvam)
- Dutch: omgaan (nl)
- Finnish: seurustella (fi), viettää aikaa, olla jonkun kanssa
- French: fréquenter (fr)
- German: gemeinsam Zeit verbringen, in Gesellschaft sein
- Greek:
- Ancient: μεθομιλέω (methomiléō)
- Hungarian: összejár (hu), barátkozik (hu)
- Japanese: 付き合う (ja) (つきあう, tsukiau), 交際する (ja) (こうさいする, kōsaisuru)
- Korean: 교제(交際)하다 (ko) (gyojehada)
- Maori: uru
- Ngazidja Comorian: ushirikiana
- Sanskrit: सचते (sa) (sacate)
- Spanish: frecuentar (es), alternar (es), tratar (es), codearse (es), relacionarse (es)
- Swedish: umgås (sv)
- Ukrainian: спілкува́тися (spilkuvátysja)
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to join as a partner, ally, or friend
to connect or join together; combine
to connect in the mind or imagination
- Armenian: զուգորդել (hy) (zugordel)
- Catalan: associar (ca)
- Dutch: associëren (nl)
- Finnish: yhdistää (fi), liittää (fi), assosioida
- German: assoziieren (de)
- Hungarian: társít (hu), asszociál (hu)
- Japanese: 結び付けて考える (むすびつけてかんがえる, musubitsukete kangaeru), (連想する (ja) (れんそうする, rensōsuru)
- Korean: 연상(聯想)하다 (ko) (yeonsanghada), 상기(想起)시키다 (sanggisikida), 관련(關聯)시켜 생각하다 (gwallyeonsikyeo saenggakhada)
- Polish: kojarzyć (pl) impf, skojarzyć pf, asocjować (pl) impf
- Portuguese: associar (pt)
- Swedish: associera (sv), förknippa (sv)
- Turkish: ilişkilendirmek (tr)
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References
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
associate
- inflection of associare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
associate f pl
- feminine plural of associato
Latin
Verb
associāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of associō