association

UK /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/ US /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.) an organization

ADJ

international, local, national, regional | private, public, voluntary | arts, business, community, constituency, consumer, football, housing, industry, library, neighbourhood, parent-teacher, professional, student, trade, etc.

ASSOCIATION + VERB

meet

The local gardening association meets every month to discuss plant care and share tips.

(noun.) relationship between people/organizations

ADJ

free

The countries decided to form a free association rather than merge into a single government.

loose

The neighborhood had only a loose association with the city government downtown.

long, long-standing | personal

VERB + ASSOCIATION

form

maintain

The company has maintained its association with environmental charities for over twenty years.

PREP

in ~ with

~ between

There is a strong association between regular exercise and better mental health.

~ with

The company's association with environmental causes has improved its reputation significantly.

PHRASES

freedom of association

People in democratic countries have the right to freedom of association and can join any group they want.

(noun.) connection between things

ADJ

clear, close, direct, intimate, strong

There is a strong association between regular exercise and better health outcomes.

loose | early, long, traditional | formal

free

During the therapy session, the psychologist asked me to try free association and speak whatever thoughts appeared.

VERB + ASSOCIATION

have

The coffee shop has a strong association with the local art community.

form

Many people form associations between certain songs and important moments in their lives.

demonstrate, find, prove, show

The study found an association between regular exercise and better sleep quality.

PREP

by ~

Children often remember new vocabulary by association with pictures or familiar objects.

in ~ with

~ between

There is a strong association between smoking and lung disease.

~ with

The company's long association with environmental causes has earned them strong customer loyalty.

PHRASES

guilty/tainted by association

Several board members resigned because they felt guilty by association with the company's scandal.

(noun.) associations: feelings/memories

ADJ

strong | happy, positive, pleasant | negative, unhappy, unpleasant

cultural, historical, literary

The old painting has strong literary associations that interest scholars and students alike.

VERB + ASSOCIATION

have, hold

Many people hold strong associations between certain songs and important moments in their lives.

call up, evoke, spark off, trigger

Hearing that old song sparked off memories and associations from my childhood.

PREP

~ for

Definitions

noun

The act of associating.

And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

"Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory o

noun — a social or business relationship

Antonyms

disassociation

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

Wiktionary

"Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant

Wiktionary

The association is still a far cry from being well organized.

Tatoeba · #19246

The association has excluded amateurs ever since its foundation.

Tatoeba · #48703

I applied for membership in the association.

Tatoeba · #49184

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