| association | | |
| n. (group) | 1. association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ organization, organisation | a group of people who work together. |
| ~ american baptist convention, northern baptist convention | an association of Northern Baptists. |
| ~ southern baptist convention | an association of Southern Baptists. |
| ~ cooperative | an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it. |
| ~ gild, guild, social club, club, lodge, society, order | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| ~ fellowship, family | an association of people who share common beliefs or activities.; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship" |
| ~ chapter | a local branch of some fraternity or association.; "he joined the Atlanta chapter" |
| ~ american legion | the largest organization of United States war veterans. |
| ~ veterans of foreign wars, vfw | an organization of United States war veterans. |
| ~ league, conference | an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members. |
| ~ secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers. |
| ~ consortium, syndicate, pool | an association of companies for some definite purpose. |
| ~ professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession. |
| ~ fabian society | an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism. |
| ~ gang, mob, pack, ring | an association of criminals.; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" |
| ~ legion | association of ex-servicemen.; "the American Legion" |
| ~ chamber of commerce | an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests. |
| ~ institute | an association organized to promote art or science or education. |
| ~ sisterhood, sistership | an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest. |
| ~ aarp, association for the advancement of retired persons | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens. |
| ~ national association of realtors | a United States association of real estate agents which follows a strict code of ethics. |
| ~ asean, association of southeast asian nations | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism. |
| ~ associate | a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" |
| n. (act) | 2. association | the act of consorting with or joining with others.; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" |
| ~ social activity | activity considered appropriate on social occasions. |
| ~ fraternisation, fraternization | associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy. |
| ~ affiliation | the act of becoming formally connected or joined.; "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university" |
| n. (state) | 3. association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination.; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break" |
| ~ unification, union | the state of being joined or united or linked.; "there is strength in union" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. association, connection, connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" |
| ~ remembering, memory | the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" |
| ~ colligation | the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis. |
| n. (state) | 5. affiliation, association, tie, tie-up | a social or business relationship.; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" |
| ~ relationship | a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries. |
| n. (linkdef) | 6. association | a relation resulting from interaction or dependence.; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite" |
| ~ relation | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together. |
| n. (process) | 7. association | (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding. |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ chemical action, chemical change, chemical process | (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved. |
| ~ hydration | the process of combining with water; usually reversible. |
| ~ solvation | a chemical process in which solvent molecules and molecules or ions of the solute combine to form a compound. |
| n. (group) | 8. association | (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. |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ bionomics, environmental science, ecology | the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment. |
| ~ antibiosis | an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another. |
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