Associate

Definitions

1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
2. An associate's degree.
   slang
3. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
4. A companion; a comrade.
5. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
6. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
7. 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).

Equivalents

Examples

“Allow⟳ me to introduce⟳ my business associates, Alice and Bob, who are senior VPs for ops and strategy, respectively.”

“Associates must wash⟳ hands before returning to work⟳”

“The frowning lookes of fiery Tamburlaine, That with his terrour and imperious eies, Commands the hearts of his aſſociates, […]”

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