Commit and Associate

commit

(v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v.t.) To confound.
(v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
(v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- synonyms: invest, put, place
Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

associate

A person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.
- usage: "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
A friend who is frequently in the company of another.
- usage: "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
- synonyms: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar
A person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise.
- usage: "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners"
Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another.
- usage: "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate"
A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies.
- synonyms: associate degree

Make a logical or causal connection.
- usage: "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"
- synonyms: tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect
Keep company with; hang out with.
- usage: "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues"
- synonyms: consort, affiliate, assort
Bring or come into association or action.
- usage: "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution"
- synonyms: consociate

Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status.
- usage: "an associate member"; "an associate professor"

(n.) A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
(v.t.) To accompany; to keep company with.
(v.t.) To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
(n.) One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
(a.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
(v.t.) To connect or place together in thought.
(v.i.) To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
(a.) Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
(v.i.) To unite in action or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
(v.t.) To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business or in an enterprise.
(a.) Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
(n.) A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
(n.) Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

In business, is a person brought together with a company or another person into a relationship in any of various intangible ways.