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affiliate
[ verb uh-fil-ee-eyt; noun uh-fil-ee-it, -eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to bring into close association or connection of action or interest: You can download resources to affiliate your event with our fundraising campaign.
The research center is affiliated with the university.
You can download resources to affiliate your event with our fundraising campaign.
- to attach or unite (oneself or another person) in fellowship or membership; associate (usually followed by with in U.S. usage, by to in British usage):
He affiliated himself with almost every group dedicated to improving the economic condition of the individual farmer.
Some of the Greek mixed-faith families affiliated their children to Orthodox Christianity, others to Islam.
- to trace the descent, derivation, or origin of:
Competing hypotheses affiliate the language with either Afroasiatic or Nilo-Saharan.
- to integrate or extend membership to; adopt (as an affiliate):
The National Golf Federation affiliated the club, giving it an immediate prestige.
- to connect or associate in thought:
Many people tend to affiliate the sciences with better pay and job security.
- Law. to fix the paternity of, as an illegitimate child:
The mother affiliated her child upon John Doe.
verb (used without object)
- to associate oneself; be intimately united in action or interest:
Our health advocacy group affiliates with hospitals equipped with the best facilities.
noun
- a branch organization.
- Commerce.
- a business concern in which a larger concern owns a minority stake, or in which a third concern, the parent of both, owns a majority stake or has been given control by contract:
The video was reportedly broadcast on STV, an affiliate of Global Television, on September 30, 1999.
- (especially in online retail) a company that retails goods on behalf of one or more other companies, paying them a commission:
Cookies are used to track a customer's progress from the website of the affiliate through to the shopping cart of the merchant.
- (in U.S. tax law) subsidiary:
Development Tax Credits are not available for property owned by the taxpayer or an affiliate prior to July 3, 2000.
- a person who is affiliated; associate; subordinate.
affiliate
verb
- tr; foll by to or with to receive into close connection or association (with a larger body, group, organization, etc); adopt as a member, branch, etc
- foll by with to associate (oneself) or be associated, esp as a subordinate or subsidiary; bring or come into close connection
he affiliated himself with the Union
noun
- a person or organization that is affiliated with another
- ( as modifier )
an affiliate member
Derived Forms
- ˌھˈپDz, noun
Other Word Forms
- ·ھ··· [uh, -, fil, -ee-, uh, -b, uh, l], adjective
- ·ھ···پ [uh, -, fil, -ee-ey-tiv, -, fil, -ee-, uh, -], adjective
- ԴDz··ھ··ٱ noun
- ԴDz··ھ···Բ adjective
- ··ھ··ٱ noun
- ··ھ··ٱ verb preaffiliated preaffiliating
- ··ھ··ٱ verb reaffiliated reaffiliating
Word History and Origins
Origin of affiliate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of affiliate1
Example Sentences
HTS is a former al-Qaeda affiliate that is still designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, the US, the EU and the UK.
Without their phones students faced extreme hardship, according to attorneys affiliated with the National Lawyers Guild.
Apex Capital is affiliated with Grupo Mariposa, a Guatemalan food and beverage conglomerate just beginning to break into the U.S. market.
The front is reportedly affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group.
Airbus added that the Prestwick operation is being acquired to ensure continuity of production but will operate as an affiliate business.
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