intimate association
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintimateandassociation
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intimate
adjective
uk/ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/us/ˈɪn.t̬ə.mət/
having, or being likely to cause, a very close friendship or personal or ...
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association
noun
uk/əˌsəʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/us/əˌsoʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
a group of people who work together in a single organization for a ...
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(Definition ofintimateandassociationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the complete ribozyme, rotation of the junction allowsintimateassociationbetween the loops.
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Some relationships resulting from theintimateassociationof acid and basic magmas.
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Therefore, developmentally there seems to be anintimateassociationbetween these factors, with reciprocal effects occurring over time.
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It has been a very close and veryintimateassociation.
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Although crack consumption clearly influenced this changed behaviour pattern, it was arguably more a consequence of the gang'sintimateassociationwith the local drugs trade.
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One reason for choosing this manner of "ending," therefore, is itsintimateassociationwith the creation of a more enduring impasse between people.
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The electricity supply industry has always had anintimateassociationwith legislation.
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I say that after over 12 months'intimateassociationwith the old people of my constituency.
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These intimate human relationships are considered forms ofintimateassociation.
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The paradigmatic example ofintimateassociationis the family.
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Anyone who has hadintimateassociationwith the lives of nurses knows the hardships which they have to overcome.
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For all that, we must have a much moreintimateassociationof the people with the government than before.
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They have been very successful on the whole precisely because of theirintimateassociationwith the localities and people concerned.
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It is essential that there continues to be anintimateassociationbetween the college and the university.
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I derive it from the more humble andintimateassociationwith the problem of the young offender.
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It is used to describe those cases where one species lives in continuousintimateassociationwith another species, on which it depends to some extent for its metabolic requirements.
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In this study, coelomocyte ultrastructure reveals a large cell (giant coelomocyte) with the plasma membrane inintimateassociationwith the intestinal basal lamina, and with floating structures in the pseudocoelom.
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In that area there is certainly a need for the mostintimateassociationbetween the personal services—welfare, housing and health.
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He is also well qualified—perhaps better qualified than most of us—to speak on this subject because of hisintimateassociationwith the motoring world.
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The establishment of boards of officials and committees will be sheer waste of time and money if there is notintimateassociationwith the man at the colliery.
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A three-judge panel agreed her right tointimateassociationhad been violated and remanded to have that claim considered under a strict scrutiny standard.
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His ideal of public virtue and private worth had been formed byintimateassociationwith the greatest and best of the soldiers and statesmen of an older generation.
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At its sacral attachment around the margins of the anterior sacral foramina it comes intointimateassociation with and ensheathes the nerves emerging from these foramina.
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