associate

Adjective

• having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status
  • an associate member
    
  • an associate professor
    

Noun

• a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies

• any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
  • first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate
    

• a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
  • associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners
    

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another
  • drinking companions
    
  • comrades in arms
    

• a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
  • he had to consult his associate before continuing
    

Verb

• bring or come into association or action
  • The churches consociated to fight their dissolution
    

• keep company with; hang out with
  • He associates with strange people
    
  • She affiliates with her colleagues
    

• make a logical or causal connection
  • I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
    
  • colligate these facts
    
  • I cannot relate these events at all
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  associate(a) , associate degree , companion , comrade , fellow , familiar , consociate , consort , affiliate , assort , tie in , relate , link , colligate , link up , connect
• Antonyms: 
  decouple , dissociate