associates

Noun

associate (plural associates)

1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
   • Allow me to introduce my business associates, Alice and Bob, who are senior VPs for ops and strategy, respectively.
2. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
3. A companion; a comrade.
4. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
5. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
6. One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).

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