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Affiliate
noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
"Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC."
- 2 a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization wordnet
- 3 a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization wordnet
Verb
- 1 To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring transitive
- 2 join in an affiliation wordnet
- 3 to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. transitive
"Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?"
- 4 keep company with; hang out with wordnet
- 5 To fix the paternity of transitive
"to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another"
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- 6 To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. transitive
"How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?"
- 7 To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc. intransitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
Etymology 2
From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
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