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      associates
      noun
      A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
      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.
      (algebra) 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).
      (slang) An associate's degree.
      verb
      (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
      (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
      (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
      (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
      (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
      (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
      (mathematics) To be associative.
      (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
      adjective
      Joined with another or others and having lower status.
      Having partial status or privileges.
      Following or accompanying; concomitant.
      (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
      Roots
      sociussoci- · Latin · companion, ally
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