I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an associate member (= one who has fewer rights than a full member )
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Turkey is an associate member of the European Union.
associate membership (= with only some of the rights allowed to members )
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In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union was offered associate membership of the International Monetary Fund.
Associate of Arts
associate professor
associated company
the risks involved/the risks associated with sth
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The soldiers were well aware of the risks involved.
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The public are unwilling to accept the risks associated with nuclear energy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
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The Prime Minister designate obviously viewed me with suspicion, as being closely associated with his predecessor.
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Not fully understanding all the implications of our warrant, they feared having their good name too closely associated with it.
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Roshchin was one of the younger playwrights who became closely associated with MKhAT after Yefremov moved there from the Sovremennik in 1970.
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The men are often in the home, doing work closely associated with women in most societies.
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Even with alcohol being legal, it is far more closely associated with the commission of crime than are drugs.
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Instead, the basalt flows and volcanic central peaks are found to be very closely associated with large craters.
■ VERB
seem
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In Eliot's own life such an idea seems to have been associated particularly with artistic movements of the big cities.
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Though the fault was hardly my own, the President seemed to associate me with the whole unfortunate episode.
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So acids, it would seem , are associated with the paints, alkalis with the building materials.
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There is no straight forward and necessary correspondence between a political structure and the political functions that seem logically associated with the structure.
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Elevated muscarinic receptor seemed therefore to be associated with the early phases of memory formation.
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Where there is evidence for volcanic activity on the Moon, it generally seems to be associated with impact events.
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Once development begins, the embryo divides rapidly and each mitosis seems to be associated with an increase in calcium.
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The objects come in various shapes and usually, though not always, seem to be associated with nearby star.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closely related/connected/associated etc
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Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.
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However, a further ten shared elements show whales to be closely related to hippopotami.
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It is not isolated but closely connected with contemporary movements.
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Perhaps even more than is usual in the social sciences, theory is closely related to practice.
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Power strategies are closely related to power bases.
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The men are often in the home, doing work closely associated with women in most societies.
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These enormous structures vary with age and are closely related to the dominance of their owners in the hierarchy.
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This is closely related to item 3 above.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've always associated the smell of paint and my first grade art class.
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People associate the old days with good times, and seem to forget the hardship they endured.
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Shoppers tend to associate certain brand names with high quality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By using metaphors and similes you allow the readers to associate their own experiences, memories, or connotations.
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Chronic alcoholic patients may have normal, enhanced, or diminished acid secretory capacity; hypochlorhydria being associated histologically with atrophic gastritis.
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However, there are two costs associated with trade credit.
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In this case an increase in gross output will be associated with an increase in both scale and diversity.
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Most human infections are associated with exposure to aquatic environments or to recent consumption of seafood.
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The induction of ventricular arrhythmias was associated with a 21% mortality against 4% in the negative group.
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The Turners had long been associated with the ironmongery trade in Dublin.
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These two words in combination and individually were also associated with other part numbers.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sales associate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Friends and associates describe Starr, the son of a Baptist minister, as a man of deep religious convictions.
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She was the daughter of the establishment poetess, Yekaterina Sheveleva, a long-time associate of Yuri Andropov.
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So why do so many of his own White House associates speak of him in tones of regret?
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The media were also out in force, although not with the blessing of the Thompson family or their friends and associates.
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They also decided to focus most on mid-level associates and young partners.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
director
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Sarah Lutyens, head of rights, contracts and special sales, has been appointed an associate director of Pan Macmillan.
member
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The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
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I've never seen her at a meeting, but she could still be an associate member .
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These activities are available when you join the society as an associate member .
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The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community.
membership
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Interested parties have the choice of full club membership for £10,000 or associate membership for £2,500.
professor
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I participated in a national competition called to fill eight positions of associate professor in gastroenterology.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If you prefer the idea of studying a single course as an associate student, tick box OO91.
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Twice a year the associate members' foreign ministers meet those of the Community, and senior officials see each other more often.