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Association   /əsˌoʊsiˈeɪʃən/  /əsˌoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Association

noun
1.
A formal organization of people or groups of people.
2.
The act of consorting with or joining with others.
3.
The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination.  Antonym: disassociation.
4.
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.  Synonyms: connection, connexion.
5.
A social or business relationship.  Synonyms: affiliation, tie, tie-up.  "He was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team" , "Many close associations with England"
6.
A relation resulting from interaction or dependence.  "The host is not always injured by association with a parasite"
7.
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding.
8.
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species.



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"Association" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I never approved of the silver being sent away," the doctor began at once, as a preliminary to the narrative of his night's adventures in association with Captain Mitchell, the engineer-in-chief, and old Viola, at Sotillo's headquarters. To the doctor, with his special conception of this political crisis, the removal of the silver had seemed an irrational and ill-omened measure. It was as if a general were sending the ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... of trouble?" asked the girl. "If you mean that your so-called business association with my father will cease, I shall be happier. My father can earn his living and I have ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... time some of her friends—such as Ripley, Curtis, and Cranch—had joined a small agricultural and educational association, called the "Brook Farm," near Roxbury, Massachusetts. She visited them once or twice, and saw Mr. Curtis engaged in washing dishes which had been used by "The Community." She remarked to him that perhaps he could be better employed for the progress ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn
... From long association in military and private life a warm personal friendship had existed between General Scott and General Robert E. Lee. At the outbreak of the war the latter, then a colonel in the army, was at his residence, Arlington, near Washington, ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright
... Fortune. And in time a son was born to him and named Treasure. Then when the father went to heaven, the young man became very unruly because of gambling and other vices. And the rascals came together, and ruined him. Association with scoundrels is the root from which springs ...
— Twenty-two Goblins • Unknown


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