Definition of Association

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Association

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

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Association Quotations

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
Rand Beers

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
Mikhail Bakunin

Association Translations

association in Afrikaans is vereniging
association in Dutch is bond, genootschap, associatie
association in French is association
association in German is Vereinigung, Vorstellung
association in Italian is fasciatura
association in Latin is congressus
association in Norwegian is forening

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