Affiliate
noun, verb
noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Common ·High school level
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
Example
More examples"Why did you decide to affiliate yourself with Company A?"
Etymology
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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