A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
The act of associating.
Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
Cooperation between commercial competitors for their mutual advantage.
Conflict over how to divide up the benefits produced by cooperation, as for example in labor-management relations.