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associate definition - legal

n

  1. A colleague, companion, partner, or fellow employee.
  2. A junior member of an association, institution, organization, profession, or society.
  3. A junior member of a law firm who typically works on salary and does not share in the ownership, profits, or decision-making of the firm.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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