Include and Associate

include

Have as a part, be made up out of.
- usage: "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
Consider as part of something.
- usage: "I include you in the list of culprits"
Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category.
- usage: "We must include this chemical element in the group"
Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.
- usage: "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
- synonyms: admit, let in

(v.t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.
(v.t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
(v.t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.