affiliated
- being in close formal or informal association; related: a letter sent to all affiliated clubs; a radio network and its affiliated local stations.
Origin of affiliated
affiliate
- to bring into close association or connection: The research center is affiliated with the university.
- to attach or unite on terms of fellowship; associate (usually followed by with in U.S. usage, by to in Brit. usage): to affiliate with the church.
- to trace the descent, derivation, or origin of: to affiliate a language.
- to adopt.
- Law. to fix the paternity of, as an illegitimate child: The mother affiliated her child upon John Doe.
- to associate oneself; be intimately united in action or interest.
- a branch organization.
- Commerce.
- a business concern owned or controlled in whole or in part by another concern.
- a subsidiary.
- a person who is affiliated; associate; auxiliary.
Origin of affiliate
Examples from the Web for affiliated
Contemporary Examples of affiliated
Tuchman, of course, never earned a Ph.D.; nor was she ever affiliated with a university history department.
Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’ Is Still WWI’s Peerless ChronicleJames A. Warren
September 29, 2014
It no longer looks at whether a detainee is affiliated with al Qaeda.
His fixer, who Barfi said was affiliated with the Islamist Tawhid brigade, was set free 15 days later.
Obama Administration and Sotloff Family Battle Over Blame for Journalist’s KidnappingJosh Rogin
September 22, 2014
Donnison tweeted that Rosenfeld told him that while the cell on the West Bank was operating alone, it was affiliated with Hamas.
Haskins is affiliated with the liberal Brookings Institution, but he worked on poverty issues in the Bush White House.
Historical Examples of affiliated
"The same, in fact, I am affiliated to," remarked the student.
Under Western EyesJoseph Conrad
"He may be affiliated to the police," was the thought that passed through his mind.
Under Western EyesJoseph Conrad
Late in 1585 the Theatre was affiliated with the adjacent Curtain.
Shakespearean PlayhousesJoseph Quincy Adams
He's affiliated with crooks who operate all over the country.
The MaskArthur Hornblow
In blood, the Mongasques are affiliated to their Provenal and Italian neighbors.
Riviera TownsHerbert Adams Gibbons
affiliate
- (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 connectionhe affiliated himself with the Union
- a person or organization that is affiliated with another
- (as modifier)an affiliate member
Word Origin for affiliate
Word Origin and History for affiliated
affiliate
1761, from Latin affiliatus, past participle of affiliare "to adopt" (see affiliation). Outside legal use, always figurative. Related: Affiliated; affiliating.
affiliate
1858, from affiliate (v.).
affiliate
1846, from affiliate (v.).