ASSOCIATE

I. verb (-ated; -ating) see: social Date: 14th century transitive verb to join as a partner, friend, or companion, to keep company with ; attend , to join or connect together ; combine , to bring together or into relationship in any of various intangible ways (as in memory or imagination), intransitive verb to come or be together as partners, friends, or companions, to combine or join with other parts ; unite , see: join II. adjective Date: 14th century closely connected (as in function or office) with another, closely related especially in the mind, having secondary or subordinate status , III. noun Date: 1533 one ~d with another: as, partner , colleague , companion , comrade , 2. an entry-level member (as of a learned society, professional organization, or profession), employee , worker , a degree conferred especially by a junior college , ~ship noun