affiliate
Americanverb (used with object)
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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.
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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.
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to trace the descent, derivation, or origin of.
Competing hypotheses affiliate the language with either Afroasiatic or Nilo-Saharan.
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to integrate or extend membership to; adopt (as an affiliate).
The National Golf Federation affiliated the club, giving it an immediate prestige.
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to connect or associate in thought.
Many people tend to affiliate the sciences with better pay and job security.
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Law. to fix the paternity of, as an illegitimate child.
The mother affiliated her child upon John Doe.
verb (used without object)
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a branch organization.
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Commerce.
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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.
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(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.
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(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.
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a person who is affiliated; associate; subordinate.
verb
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(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
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(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
Other Word Forms
- affiliable adjective
- affiliation noun
- affiliative adjective
- nonaffiliate noun
- nonaffiliating adjective
- preaffiliate noun
- reaffiliate verb
Etymology
Origin of affiliate
First recorded in 1755–65; from Latin affīliātus “adopted as son” (past participle of affīliāre ), equivalent to af- af- + fīli(us) “son” + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The rule proposed Monday makes clear that so-called continuation funds, where a firm buys a fund from its own affiliate using its own proprietary valuation methods, wouldn’t be eligible for the Labor Department’s safe harbor.
Cybersecurity experts believe attacks conducted by Iranian state-backed factors and affiliated hacktivist groups could continue, likely targeting critical service providers in the energy, telecommunications, military, and finance sectors across the U.S. and its allies.
From Barron's
Run for Something is not affiliated with No Kings, but some of the organization’s endorsed candidates this year hail from the movement.
From Salon
At the time, Stellantis’s U.S. affiliate paid more than $26 million and granted substantial price increases to avoid parts not being shipped, the lawsuit said.
The criticism was so intense some students told her they didn’t want to be affiliated with any conservative groups.
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