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Meaning of Associate | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Standard

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

العربية خليط مرافق مساعد
Azərbaycanca oturub-durmaq
Беларуская кале́га
Català associar associat
Dansk kollega kompagnon ledsager med-
Ελληνικά συνεργάτης
Français fréquenter
Bahasa Indonesia pendamping teman
Kurdî partner
Te Reo Māori uru
Nederlands omgaan
Português associado associar associar-se a colega
Română asociat camarad coleg partener tovarăș
Kiswahili mshirika
ไทย เสวนา
Türkçe asosiye iştirakçi ortak partner
Tiếng Việt chiến hữu

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, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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