fraternizes

Keeps company with

Fraternizes means to associate or mingle in a friendly way, especially with people one might be expected to avoid.

Soldiers fraternize with the enemy, officers fraternize with enlisted personnel, management fraternizes with labor: The coach was fired for fraternizing with players.

The word often implies crossing boundaries that propriety or policy would keep separate.

socializing

mingles

Interacts socially with others

interacts · networks · converses · engages · meets · gathers · circulates · schmoozes · hangs out · consorts

camaraderie

brotherhood

Kinship among men

esprit de corps · kinship · loyalty · companionship · closeness · friendship · rapport · warmth · mutual trust

forbidden

consorts

Spouses of rulers

cooperates · associates · conspires · aids · abets · goes native · defects · betrays · turns

bonding

befriends

Forms a companionship

collaborates · cooperates · partners · joins · unites · bands together · links up

Opposites
social engagement/distance

fraternizesavoids

Deliberately stays away from

shuns · ostracizes · snubs · isolates · withdraws

social propriety/boundaries

fraternizessegregates

Divides by category

social propriety

fraternizesstands on ceremony

Insists on formality

Family

fraternize, fraternization, fraternizing, fraternizer, fraternized, fraternizers, fraternizations

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