affiliate
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
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.
- German: Tochterunternehmen, Tochtergesellschaft, Zweigunternehmen, Zweigniederlassung
- Spanish: afiliado, afiliada, filial
affiliate (affiliates, present participle affiliating; 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.
- I. Taylor
- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- I. Taylor
- (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.
- H. Spencer
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
- H. Spencer
- (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.
- German: aufnehmen
- German: herleiten
- German: verbinden, beitreten, beifügen, zufügen
- Portuguese: afiliar, filiar
- Russian: присоединя́ться
- Spanish: afiliar, asociar
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