associate vs quit

associate

verb
  • To endorse. 

  • To connect or join together; combine. 

  • To join as a partner, ally, or friend. 

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

  • To spend time socially; keep company. 

  • To be associative. 

  • To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination. 

adj
  • Joined with another or others and having lower status. 

  • Having partial status or privileges. 

  • Following or accompanying; concomitant. 

noun
  • A companion; a comrade. 

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

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

  • 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). 

  • Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. 

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

quit

verb
  • To abandon, renounce (a thing). 

  • To leave (a place). 

  • To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit. 

  • To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun). 

  • To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.). 

  • To close (an application). 

  • To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. 

adj
  • Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid. 

noun
  • Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. 

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