how to pronounce association

/əˌsəʊ.siˈɛɪ.ʃən/

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association is pronounced in five syllables

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An example use of association in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… like ice cream the association of …”

meaning of association

Association is a group of people who are associated with each other.

association frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word association occurs in english on average 114.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics association can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that association can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) education, science, and technology;