fraternise
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a variation of
fraternize.
fraternizeverb (used without object)to associate socially or romantically with people considered inappropriate company, often due to a difference in status, as between managers and subordinates, or professors and students.
Example Sentences
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Despite his proximity to rock's biggest and brightest, he says he rarely gets to fraternise with the stars.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022
I guess they don’t understand the gravity of the situation but you do NOT fraternise with a West Ham player.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2021
"They didn't want me to fraternise with my old friends," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2020
"He finds that he must fraternise with his fellow men at whom he cannot look without the grievous risk of betraying by his expression, how awful is their appearance," he wrote.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2019
The Scotch Episcopal Church remained as a communion with which English Nonjurors could fraternise.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey