aˈssociated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Joined in companionship; united in action or purpose, sharing in dignity or office, allied. Associated Press (abbrev. A.P.), an association of American newspapers.
| 1611 Cotgr., Associé, Associated, accompanied, consorted. 1656 (title) Agreement of the Associated Ministers and Churches of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. 1835 Sir J. Ross N.-W. Pass. vi. 89 My associated though junior officer. 1849 New Orleans Picayune 9 May 2/2 The Associated press..occupy the telegraph many hours. 1879 [see A III]. 1881 Echo 31 Jan. 3/6 The New York Associated Banks. 1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Okla.) 25 Apr. 11/1 A poll conducted by the Associated Press. 1955 Times 29 June 7/5 Details of the programmes which will be transmitted by the Associated Broadcasting Company when commercial television begins in September were announced. 1958 Daily Tel. 30 June 13/4 Associated-Rediffusion, the main ITV company for London. |
2. Connected in thought, mentally related.
| 1748 Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §1 ¶94 The factitious, associated nature of these Pleasures. 1877 W. Lytteil Landm. iii. iv. 119 Nothing but the name and the associated monuments to help us. |
3. Combined locally, circumstantially, or in classification (with); occurring in combination. associated movements: those ‘having no connexion with the essential act calling them forth, but coincident or consensual with it’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1881).
| 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 250 With associated beds of finer ingredients. 1839 Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxii. 275 The combustion of lignite and coal producing a long continued heat, which has acted upon the associated shale. 1845 Darwin Voy. Nat. xviii. (1852) 424 The almost entire absence of associated grasses [in New Zealand] may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest trees. |