The phrase "associated state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to political or legal discussions, particularly when referring to a territory that has a special relationship with a larger sovereign state.
Example: "The associated state has its own government but relies on the larger nation for defense and foreign affairs."
Alternatives: "affiliated territory" or "dependent territory".
The country or the freely associated State to which such individual is to be transferred or released.
In 1950, it was given partial autonomy, as a "free associated state", but far from assuaging the independence struggle, the move merely exacerbated it.
What nationalist fervor Puerto Rico had was quashed, and the colony stayed bound to US-controlled capitalism as a "free associated state".
Neither Congress nor the American courts have ever embraced Muñoz's Spanish-language phrase for "commonwealth," universally recognized in Puerto Rico: "estado libre asociado," or free associated state.
In non-homogeneous systems, both the configuration and associated state transformations are nonlinear and depend continuously on the excitation.
On the second, 61 percent voted for statehood, 5 percent for independence, and 33 percent for sovereign free associated state.
Such an effort, however, is complicated by the fact that there exists little structural information about bryostatin's target, protein kinase C (PKC), in its active, membrane-associated state.
However, Juan José Ibarretxe, leader of the Basque government, has been battling with the central government to hold a referendum among Basques about whether they would like to become a "free-associated state" within Spain.
Aurein 1.2 bound weakly without any change in membrane ordering at low peptide concentration (5 μM), indicating a surface-associated state without significant perturbation in membrane structure.
The L161P mutation prevents helix formation and blocks the transition to the fully membrane-associated state.
Alternatively, each domain may first transition to a weakly membrane-associated state, from which dissociation proceeds rapidly in the absence of Ca2+.
