Usually means: Partners or colleagues in business.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word associates:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. associates: Merriam-Webster
  2. associates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. associates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Associate's, Associates, associate's, associates: Wordnik
  5. associates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Associates, associate's, associates: Wiktionary
  7. Associates: Dictionary.com
  8. associates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Associates (band), Associates, The Associates (American TV series), The Associates (Canadian TV series), The Associates (U.S. TV series), The Associates (band), .associates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. associates: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. associates: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. associates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  3. associates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. associates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. associates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. associates: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. associates: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. associates: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Associates: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See associate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Associate)

adjective:  Joined with another or others and having lower status.
adjective:  Having partial status or privileges.
adjective:  Following or accompanying; concomitant.
adjective:  (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
noun:  A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
noun:  Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
noun:  A companion; a comrade.
noun:  One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
noun:  A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
noun:  (algebra) 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).
verb:  (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
verb:  (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
verb:  (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
verb:  (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
verb:  (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
verb:  (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
verb:  (mathematics) To be associative.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
noun:  (slang) An associate's degree.
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