A law court, A committee or board appointed to adjudicate in a particular matter, The seat of a magistrate or judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit to administer justice

the act of coming together again, a party of former associates who have come together again, An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed

Plural form of associate, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of associate