association

Definitions

1. The act of associating.
   uncountable
2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
   countable
3. The technique of association involves reading out a list of words and encouraging subjects to respond with the first word coming to mind.
4. partnership
5. Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
   countable, uncountable
6. a colleague or partner; a companion. assosiaat عُضو، مُشارِك ،زَميل колега sócio kolega, společník der/die Kollege/Kollegin; der/die Partner(in) kollega; partner συνεργάτηςsocio kaaslane, partner شریک؛ همدم kumppani associé/-ée חבר सहयोगी kolega társ mitra félagi; samstarfsmaður socio; collega 仲間 동료 bendradarbis, partneris, kolega biedrs; kolēģis; partneris teman collega, metgezelkollega, partnerpartner, współpracownik, kolega شریک، هم راز sócio aso­ciat коллега; партнер spoločník, -čka sodel...
7. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
   countable, uncountable
8. together with. We are acting in association with the London branch of our firm. in assosiasie met بِالإشْتِراك مَع заедно с juntamente com ve spojení s in Verbindung mit i samarbejde med σε συνεργασία με juntamente con koostöös (kellegagi) با همراهی؛ درکنار yhdessä jnk kanssa de concert avecהתאחדות के साथ zajednički együtt bersama í samfloti með, í tengslum við d'intesa con ～と共同して ...와 관련하여 drauge su kopā ar bersama-sama samen meti samarbeid med razem z په څنګ کی ، ملګرتیا کول juntamente com ...
9. asociación, sociedad, unión.
10. Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
    countable, uncountable
11. The act of associating or being connected with: My parents disapproved of my association with my friends from across town.
12. A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
    Philippines, countable, uncountable
13. An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.
14. A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations: My therapist helped me examine my association of food with comfort.
15. A correlation or causal connection: There is a definite association of exercise with improved health.
16. Chemistry Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.
    Chemistry
17. Ecology A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
    Ecology

Equivalents

Examples

“And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense⟳ of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like⟳, and the association of living beings who have⟳ this sense⟳ makes a family and a state.”

“"Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like⟳ common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant⟳ has no associations."”

“Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race⟳. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define⟳ groups of people by race⟳ really a matter⟳ of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?”

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