Associate

Associate may refer to: A pledge

Academics

• Associate degree, a two-year educational degree in the United States, and some areas of Canada
• Technical associate or Senmonshi, a Japanese educational degree
• Associate of the Royal College of Science, an honorary degree-equivalent award presented by Imperial College London
• Teaching associate, an academic teaching position usually requiring a graduate degree
• Research associate, an academic research position usually requiring a graduate degree

Business

• Employee
• Business partner
• Associate, an independent (often self-employed) person working as if directly employed by a company
• Associate company, an accounting and business valuation concept

Health care

• Associate Specialist, a rank of doctors in the United Kingdom
• Clinical Associate (Psychology), a specialist regulated mental health professional in Scotland
• Clinical associates, a category of healthcare providers in South Africa

Law

• Associate attorney, an employee lawyer in a traditional United States law firm
• Associate justice, a member of a judicial panel who is not the chief justice
• Judge's associate, an assistant to a judge in an Australian court (akin to a judge's clerk in an American court)

Entertainment

• Associates (band), a Scottish post-punk and New Wave band of the early 1980s
• The Associate, a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg
  • The Associate (soundtrack), a 1996 original soundtrack album
• The Associate (novel), a 2009 novel by John Grisham
• The Associates (U.S. TV series), An American sitcom in 1979 and 1980
• The Associates (Canadian TV series), a Canadian drama TV series in 2001 and 2002

Other uses

• Associate, to form an Association (psychology) or connection between two or more concepts in the mind or imagination
• Associate (ring theory), a mathematical concept
• Associate, a person who is in league with the Mafia but is not a made man (full member)

See also

• Association (disambiguation)