affiliate
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare (“to adopt as son”), from Latin ad + filius (“son”): compare French affilier.
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affiliate (plural affiliates)
- 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.
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something that is affiliated
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Verb edit
affiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)
- (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
- (transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- (transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
- to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- 1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
- (intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
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to adopt — see adopt
to fix the paternity of
to attach (to) or unite (with)
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affiliate
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affiliate
- inflection of affiliare:
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affiliate f pl