associateship|əˈsəʊʃɪət-ʃɪp| [f. associate n. + -ship.] The position or status of an associate. 1846Calendar of King's Coll.Lond. Index, Rules for the Associateship.1862Thornbury Turner I. 257 Up to 1799 (his Associateship year) Turner had exhibited sixty-two pictures.