SOCIATION Synonyms

• a formal organization of people or groups of people

• the act of consorting with or joining with others

• the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a social or business relationship

• a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

• (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

• (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

• a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• stout stick that is larger at one end

• a building that is occupied by a social club

• golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

• a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it

• a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink

• unite with a common purpose

• gather and spend time together

• strike with a club or a bludgeon

• gather into a club-like mass

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the state of being combined into one body

• the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

• an association of companies for some definite purpose

• an organization formed by merging several groups or parties

• a union of political organizations

• the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs

• an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

• the state of being with someone

• money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research

• any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

• arrange into a group or groups

• form a group or group together

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action

• an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

• unite to form a league

• a group of people who work together

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

• the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business

• an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

• the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically

• the act of forming or establishing something

• the members of a business venture created by contract

• a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal

• a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses

• an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• the state of being with someone

• the fashionable elite

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War