having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status
<adj.all> an associate member an associate professor
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. i. 1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
2. To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body. --E. Darwin.
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, a. [L. associatus, p. p.] 1. Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
While I descend . . . to my associate powers. --Milton.
2. Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
3. (Physiol.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. --E. Darwin.
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Associated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Associating}.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See {Social}.] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
3. To connect or place together in thought.
He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. --Macaulay.
4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.]
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. --Shak.
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, n. 1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
3. One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
4. Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. --Locke.
The Democratic governor said he met privately Wednesday with Texas oilman Robert Mosbacher, a longtime Bush associate selected by the Republican president-elect to be commerce secretary in his administration.
Mr. Upton is associate finance spokesman for the National Party.
"The way I read it, it's an attempt to show the lengths that the art community will go to thumb their noses at government grants," said Jack Morrissey, an associate editor at Universal Press Syndicate.
The evening's total was about $2 million, said James Figetakis, an associate of Ms. Taylor's publicist, Chen Sam.
JoAnne Akalaitis, earth mother of the avant-garde theater troupe Mabou Mines, was named his artistic associate.
Among the other signs, says Steve Lyons, associate professor of meteorology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, are the large thunderstorms typically produced in the areas of the warm sea water.
Eugene d'Aquili, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that the interest in channeling reflects a declining influence of traditional religion.
Dzhurov, a longtime associate of ousted Communist Party chief Todor Zhivkov, had been defense chief since 1962.
Michael Trant, who was an associate deputy attorney general, pleaded guilty to one count of cocaine possession.
The problem is that the Griffin Bells, Ed Meeses and Dick Thornburghs lack any credibility in spearheading an investigation of wrongdoing by a political associate; they either are too close personally or too ambitious politically.
This step-by-step method is "the best answer anybody's come up with yet" to ensure food safety, Joseph Hotchkiss, an associate professor of food chemistry and toxicology at Cornell University said during a telephone interview Tuesday.
Robert Dahl, a senior associate with Air Cargo Management Group, a Seattle consulting firm, estimated that the agreement would yield no more than $10 million a year for Federal but would carry little added cost.
There was a wide railway reserve going through the city and Stewart (Elliott, his long-time British associate) said why not use that. 'No sane person has invested money in a railway this century.
Though the SBA generally tries to wean participating companies from such contracts before graduation, many firms are unable to find business outside of the program, says Edward C. Neal, deputy associate administrator for minority small business.
"We can cure people who might otherwise have a lifelong infection with serious consequences if we get to them early enough," said Robert P. Perrillo, associate professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
"Energy problems lead to real-estate problems," says A. David Meadows, associate director of the FDIC's division of bank supervision.
The ruling of the state Court of Appeals may define what control parents have in determining who may associate with their children.
So the freedom of citizens to associate and act for political purposes or for free collective bargaining.
His wife of 14 years, Martha Howell, is an associate professor in medieval history at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Kohner died Wednesday at University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, said John Strauss, a longtime associate.
Mulheren once was a close associate of Boesky and has been implicated in the government's investigation of Wall Street corruption.
President Roh Tae-woo, another former general and associate of Chun, is trying to defuse the crisis without damaging his government's position.
Denmark would then have to obtain some kind of associate membership of the Community.
"The court has never really squarely faced the issue of an individual's right to associate for a purely social or cultural purpose," said Daniel Sheehan, an attorney for rink owner Michael Stanglin.
The Moscow State Institute "represents the best of the Soviet intelligentsia," said Fishman, an assistant professor of Jewish history at the seminary and research associate at YIVO.
The money in Panama "may have acted as some form of security or collateral for activities involving Gerardo Harris, an associate and confidante of Manuel Noriega," the report charges.
Pen Kent, associate director of the Bank of England since 1988, is to replace Andrew Crockett as a director of the Bank from the end of this month.
Otherwise he'll be sent to the New York Aquarium, said Randy Wisthoff, associate director of the zoo.
The position of associate administrator, as it is known, pays $71,800 a year.
I painted it in 1986-87 after I saw a picture in the paper. 'I was deeply shocked by the image of those women in clothes which I associate with a nun's habit, holding rocket launchers.