Talk:association

Legal requirements?
What (if any) legal requirements are there for a company to operate as an "association", for-profit or otherwise? Granted, this stage is not a substitute for legal counsel... but I wonder if anyone knows.

Thanks!

RFV discussion
Two first senses are defined as: Aren't these a bit too general? Do they apply with every sense of "to associate"? Should they be divided into several, more specific senses? --Hekaheka 06:16, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) The act of associating.
 * 2) The state of being associated.


 * Most dictionaries at OneLook handle it as we do, more or less. This is a general aspect of such terms. I would not want to define each and every derived term of a polysemous word with each sense of the polysemous word. Sometimes efforts along those line may be necessary.
 * Do you doubt that we could find 3 uses for each of these? It seems you would like the definition improved. Perhaps or  or  or  would fit you request better. DCDuring TALK  15:38, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I raised the question because we sometimes separate the senses with split-hair precision, whereas this entry in its current form takes a more wholesale approach. It's perhaps only my problem, but as there's no one word in Finnish that would cover all the senses of "to associate", I needed about a dozen words to cover each of the two senses that I tagged. There's no doubt about it being possible to find three quotes for each. I just wanted to verify that the definitions are clear and specific enough. If everybody else is happy with them, I'm happy. --Hekaheka 17:28, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Striking. I don't have a strong opinion about whether we should split these senses up, but regardless, isn't going to accomplish that. :-/  —Ruakh TALK 21:31, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

RFD discussion
Rfd-redundant. "A connection to or an affiliation with something" redundant to "The state of being associated". If these aren't intended to be the same, it's just the wording. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:16, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I can see no difference worthy of a separate sense. They should be combined into a single sense, separated by a colon. There's nothing wrong with a single definition line laying out two ways of describing the sense. bd2412 T 13:20, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds fine. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:50, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Merged the redundant sense.--Jusjih 18:56, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

linked idea
A thought, idea, or feeling linked with an event --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:03, 7 October 2020 (UTC).