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Synonyms for association

a group of people united in a relationship and having some interest, activity, or purpose in common

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a group of athletic teams that play each other

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something, such as a feeling, thought, or idea, associated in one's mind or imagination with a specific person or thing

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Synonyms for association

the act of consorting with or joining with others

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the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

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

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a social or business relationship

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a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

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

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(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

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'That the members of the aforesaid Corresponding Society be, and are hereby informed, that their proposal to pay the postage of their letters, and the carriage of their parcels, has been deliberated upon by this Association: that this Association considers such proposal worthy of the great minds from which it emanated, and that it hereby signifies its perfect acquiescence therein.'
'That the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club is therefore hereby constituted; and that Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., Tracy Tupman, Esq., M.P.C., Augustus Snodgrass, Esq., M.P.C., and Nathaniel Winkle, Esq., M.P.C., are hereby nominated and appointed members of the same; and that they be requested to forward, from time to time, authenticated accounts of their journeys and investigations, of their observations of character and manners, and of the whole of their adventures, together with all tales and papers to which local scenery or associations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club, stationed in London.
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Back of the association hall was a smaller room rented by the club.
Cold steel drawn in the rooms of the Give and Take Association! Such a thing had never happened before.
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Do you think I have no associations? Do you calculate that I am prepared to dwell only on what vice and degradation may be found in Alpine villages, and to leave quite out of my heart the social greatness of my countrymen, and our blood-earned freedom, and the natural glories of our mountains?
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The address which I delivered at Madison, before the National Educational Association, gave me a rather wide introduction in the North, and soon after that opportunities began offering themselves for me to address audiences there.
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The employers' associations, that had helped the captains of industry to tear and rend labor, were now torn and rent by their quondam allies.
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Can we, then, by the citation of some of those instances wherein this thing of whiteness --though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful, but, nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however modified; --can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us to the hidden cause we seek?
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However, the cancellation of licenses of All Pakistan Alloy Rim Manufacturers Association, All Pakistan Carbon Solvent Importers Association, and Submersible Pump Importer Association of Pakistan was withheld due to a stay order of the Balochistan High Court (BHC).
Licences of trade bodies, chambers revoked for non-compliance
An appropriate resolution to this dispute might be to permit you to keep the nonconforming door, or have the association pay for a new conforming door or to have the current door painted.
Must color of doors in condo be uniform?
Association Murree, Tehsil Bar Association Sillanwali, Tehsil Bar Association Sambrial, Tehsil Bar Association Bhalwal, Tehsil Bar Association Sahiwal District Sargodha, Tehsil Bar Association Lalian, Tehsil Bar Association Mian Channu, Tehsil Bar Association Chichawatni, Tehsil Bar Association Tandlianwala, District Bar Association Tando Mohammad Khan, District Bar Association Khairpur,
Ali Zafar distributes Rs 33 million among bar associations
Mid-Sized Affiliate Mobile Bay Area Apartment Association (4,873 units)
NAA recognizes membership growth
Annie Hernandez, project co-chair and treasurer for the Cuban American Bar Association, added: "It gives our joint resolution more credibility and significance when the appellate courts are behind it.
Third and Fourth DCAs join South Florida civility project
The Leadership Forum Retail Industry Leaders Association
2014 Trade Calendar
International Dairy Deli Bakery Association (IDDBA)
Association Listings
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