the act of consorting with or joining with others | an association of companies for some definite purpose |
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities |
a formal organization of people or groups of people | a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication |
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species | |
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding | |
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence | |
a social or business relationship | |
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination | |