Associate vs. Executive — What's the Difference?

To connect in the mind or imagination

A person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization.

To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner

The chief officer of a government, state, or political division.

To correlate or connect logically or causally

The branch of government charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions.

To join in or form a league, union, or association

(Computers) A set of coded instructions designed to process and control other coded instructions.

To spend time socially; keep company

Of, relating to, capable of, or suited for carrying out or executing

A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.

Having, characterized by, or relating to administrative or managerial authority

An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,

Of or relating to the branch of government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws.

A companion; a comrade.

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.

One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.

Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.

A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.

Exclusive.

Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status

A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.

Having partial status or privileges

The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.

Joined with another or others and having lower status.

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

Having partial status or privileges.

Of or pertaining to an executive{2} or to the group of executives within an organization; as, executive compensation increased more rapidly than wages in the 1980's; the executive suite.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

Connected by habit or sympathy.

A person who has administrative authority over an organization or division of an organization; a manager, supervisor or administrator at a high level within an organization; as, all executives of the company were given stock options

A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.

A person responsible for the administration of a business

Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.

Persons who administer the law

A companion; a comrade.

Someone who manages a government agency or department

One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.

Having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.;

A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.

(algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).

(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.

(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.

To join as a partner, ally, or friend.

(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.

(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.

To endorse.

(mathematics) To be associative.

To accompany; to be in the company of.

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

To connect or place together in thought.

To accompany; to keep company with.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.

Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.

Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.

Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.

A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.

One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.

Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.

A person who joins with others in some activity;

A person who is frequently in the company of another;

Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another;

A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies

Make a logical or causal connection;

Keep company with; hang out with;

Bring or come into association or action;

Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status;