affiliation order

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noun British Law.

a court order requiring the father of an illegitimate child to make child-support payments.

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Origin of affiliation order

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby affiliation order

afficionado, affidavit, affiliate, affiliated, affiliation, affiliation order, affiliation proceedings, affiliative drive, affinal, affine, affined

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How to use affiliation order in a sentence

And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.
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He could order the Justice Department to begin the necessary regulatory work.
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And his last known affiliation with the Klan was almost 70 years ago, in 1946.
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So working with the militants in order to deliver aid “becomes a requirement,” she said.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
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Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.
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Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
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British Dictionary definitions for affiliation order

affiliation order

noun

law (formerly) an order made by a magistrates' court that a man adjudged to be the father of an illegitimate child shall contribute a specified periodic sum towards the child's maintenance

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