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associate

/əˈsoʊʃi.ət/ adjective B2
  1. Joined with another or others and having lower status. · The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
  2. Having partial status or privileges. · He is an associate member of the club.
  3. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
  4. Connected by habit or sympathy. (dated) · associate motions
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“You don’t associate his past with any particular part of America?”
The Valley of Fear, p. 51 · C1
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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 34 · B2
This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 35 · B2
The boxer still addressed his remarks to his associate.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 42 · B2

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