associate
/əˈsoʊʃi.ət/ noun C2- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee. · 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
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- 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).
- A casual friend, acquaintance
Plural associates
From the library
“You don’t associate his past with any particular part of America?”
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr.
The boxer still addressed his remarks to his associate.
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