#business partner
- Associate — A natural or legal person who has joined with others in an association, commercial company, or organization, contributing capital, assets, or labor to a joint activity and sharing the risks and profits; as an adjective, it describes an element that is joined, combined, directly connected, or logically, scientifically, or functionally correlated with another entity, phenomenon, or process.
- Associated — Having been united, grouped, or connected; a partner or member of an association (popular variant for 'asociat'); in an adjectival sense, it describes a thing, an idea, or a phenomenon directly correlated or in close interdependence with another, retaining a pronunciation specific to certain archaic dialects.