Associate may refer to:
- A business valuation concept.
- A title used by some companies instead of employee.
- A title used to signify an independent (often self-employed) person working as if directly employed by the company of which they are an associate. Such a person may be an associate of more than one company.
- Associate, to form an association or connection between two or more concepts in the mind or imagination.
- Conversely, to disassociate, is to disconnect those associations in your mind and distance yourself from certain thoughts or ideas.
- Associate, a person who has some dealings with another, possibly a friend. Often used for business partners.
- Associate, a person who is in league with the Mafia but is not treated as a full member, e.g. a corrupt official.
- Associate attorney, an employee lawyer in a traditional United States law firm.
- Associate Justice, a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice.
- Judge's associate: an assistant to a Judge in an Australian Court (akin to a Judge's clerk in an American court).
- Research associate
- Associate's degree, a two-year educational degree.
- Associate company, an accounting and business valuation concept.
- Associate (ring theory), a mathematical concept.
- Associate member Russian: член-корреспондент (chlen-korrespondent)
- The Associate, a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg.
- The Associate (soundtrack), a 1996 original soundtrack album
- The Associate, a 2009 novel by John Grisham.
Famous quotes containing the word associate:
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)