associate membership

基本解释

She applied for associate membership last year.
她去年申请成为准会员。
America has proposed something less: a kind of associate membership that would give kindred governments an early role in planning operations and better access to NATO training.
美国的提议更简单：给予友好政府某种联盟关系可以使他们在参与行动策划和参加北约训练方面更早的进入角色。
IPIC offers different types of membership: Honorary, Member, Associate, Nonresident Associate, Affiliate, Nonresident Affiliate, Student, Emeritus and Academic.
IPIC有不同的会员制：名誉会员、准会员、非常驻会员、关联会员、非常驻关联会员、学生会员、退休和学术会员。
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Consider if someday an independent Quebec decided to invite the Russians to train and supply its army (France having long since gone bust in the new Euro Reich) and applied for associate membership of Russia's revived Commonwealth of Independent States.
ECONOMIST: Redefining NATO
It is, in fact, entirely possible -- Treasury Secretary Brady's denials to the contrary notwithstanding -- that the "technical assistance" from these organizations to which the Soviet Union will become entitled by dint of its "associate membership status" will rapidly evolve into full membership status before or at the Munich Summit next year.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
An effort by the United States government to use surreptitiously the "associate IMF membership" gambit — newly, and uniquely, invented for the Soviet Union — to circumvent the Johnson Debt Default Act of 1934.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy