an association of companies for some definite purpose | the act of consorting with or joining with others |
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination |
a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | a formal organization of people or groups of people |
| (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 |