The phrase "associate got" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express that an associate has obtained something, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The associate got the project approved after presenting the proposal."
Alternatives: "the associate received" or "the associate obtained".
Mr. Edwards, then a young associate, got the assignment because it was considered a loser.
"The next night, late in the office," Ms. Corradini said, "my associate got a call about this magnificent Beaux-Arts mansion on 82nd Street.
I usually had lunch with our local company manager, and on one occasion, when we were at a Madrid restaurant, my associate got up from the table and went over to another man.
On the first point, "too often people associate getting older with having nothing left to do, nothing left to give, in life," he adds.
What winds up happening at Carbine (and I believe other NCSoft subsidiaries) is when an hourly associate gets promoted to a staff-level salaried job, they retain their hourly wage and get a very slight pay bump.
Without taking at face value NHS propaganda about the costs of alcohol to the health service as an argument for minimum pricing, we can see in any city in Britain that our teenagers associate getting drunk with conviviality.
In humans, we associate getting older with cobwebs of the mind; in spiders, it's the cobwebs themselves that suffer.
High-ranking Mexican Mafia associate gets 25 years for murder.
Eventually the puppy will associate getting sprayed with the garden and will stop digging there.
For their efforts, Merrill and its associates got a cut of the savings -- $25 million, or more than 13 cents on every dollar rescued from the government.
The life of a law associate may always have been a grind, in which associates got used to exchanging familiar nods with the late-night cleaning crew.
