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{
"term": "associate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "associate",
"heSheIt": "associates"
},
"pastSimple": "associated",
"pastParticiple": "associated",
"ingForm": "associating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make a connection between people or things in your mind",
"sensetop": "associate somebody/something with somebody/somethingassociate somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood.",
"contextForm": "associate somebody/something with somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He is **closely associated** in the public mind with horror movies."
},
{
"text": "Most people immediately associate addictions with drugs and alcohol."
},
{
"text": "You wouldn’t normally associate these two writers—their styles are completely different.",
"contextForm": "associate somebody/something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to spend time with somebody, especially a person or people that somebody else does not approve of",
"sensetop": "associate with somebody",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don't like you associating with those people."
}
],
"synonyms": "mix"
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to show that you support or agree with something",
"sensetop": "associate yourself with something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I associate myself with the prime minister's remarks *(= I agree with them)*."
},
{
"text": "I have never associated myself with political extremism."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪt//əˈsəʊʃieɪt/",
"audio": "as/associate/associate__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪts//əˈsəʊʃieɪts/",
"audio": "as/associate/associates__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪtɪd//əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪd/",
"audio": "as/associate/associated__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪtɪŋ//əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "as/associate/associating__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪt//əˈsəʊʃieɪt/",
"audio": "as/associate/associate__us_2_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪts//əˈsəʊʃieɪts/",
"audio": "as/associate/associates__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪtɪd//əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪd/",
"audio": "as/associate/associated__us_4.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsəʊsieɪtɪŋ//əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "as/associate/associating__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘join with in a common purpose’; as an adjective in the sense ‘allied’): from Latin associat- ‘joined’, from the verb associare, from ad- ‘to’ + socius ‘sharing, allied’."
}