Attorney vs. Associate — What's the Difference?

A person who is legally qualified and licensed to represent a person in a legal matter, such as a transaction or lawsuit.

To connect in the mind or imagination

(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.

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

One such who practised in the courts of the common law.

To correlate or connect logically or causally

A solicitor.

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

An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.

To spend time socially; keep company

An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.

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

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An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,

A prosecutor

A companion; a comrade.

To work as a legal attorney.

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

To provide with a legal attorney.

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

A substitute; a proxy; an agent.

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

One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

Having partial status or privileges

To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

Joined with another or others and having lower status.

Having partial status or privileges.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

Connected by habit or sympathy.

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

Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.

A companion; a comrade.

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

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;