The phrase "associates it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a connection or relationship between two concepts, ideas, or entities.
Example: "The study associates it with increased productivity in the workplace."
Alternatives: "links it" or "relates it".
The right associates it with its twin evil, relativism.
The chances that the contract would have been favourable to Wal-Mart were "highly remote", said one of its managers.The union reckons that Wal-Mart pays its workers ("associates" it calls them) up to 40% less than its competitors.
Through its parent company, Lester Associates, it offers pre-qualified business sponsorship to Australia for people in high demand areas, like IT.
Oxford "should stop selling its reputation and prestige to Putin's associates," it says.
Last week, the San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop, saying that "this is a difficult time for all who work in New York," told associates it would lay off 11 of the 109 lawyers in its Manhattan office.
"She associates it with me being gone," the sergeant said.
His suffering has ended but that of his family, friends and associates -- it has only begun.
"Bachmann & Associates," it said, "prohibits all soliciting, filming and photography in this building.
I'd been working hard, maybe too hard, I had just finished that market-penetration study for Sherwood Merrick Associates, it was the right time to get away.
A spokesman for Mr. McConnell stressed that while he requested that the contract go to Electronic Warfare Associates, it was "competitively bid".
And while Kia remains the bottom-ranked automaker in the Initial Quality Survey by J. D. Power & Associates, it has shown steady gains.
