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Honorary vs Associate - What's the difference?

honorary | associate |

As adjectives the difference between honorary and associate

is that honorary is given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment while associate is joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.

As nouns the difference between honorary and associate

is that honorary is an honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value while associate is a person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.

As a verb associate is

to join in or form a league, union, or association.

honorary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.
  • honorary degree
  • .
  • honorary citizen
    honorary consul
    honorary vice president
    honorary member of the family

    Derived terms

    * honorary authorship * honorary title * honorary trust

    Noun

    (honoraries)
  • An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value.
  • A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.
  • associate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
  • He is an associate editor.
  • Having partial status or privileges.
  • He is an associate member of the club.
  • Following or accompanying; concomitant.
  • (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
  • associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or 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.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (associat)
  • (lb) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
  • (lb) To spend time socially; keep company.
  • :
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
  • (lb) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
  • (lb) To connect or join together; combine.
  • :
  • (lb) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
  • *(rfdate) (John Keats) (1795-1821)
  • *:I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
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  • To endorse.
  • *
  • (lb) To be associative.
  • To accompany; to keep company with.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
  • Synonyms

    * join

    Antonyms

    * disassociate

    References

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