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affiliate

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English

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Etymology

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FromMedieval Latinaffīliātus, the passivepast participle ofLate Latinadfīliō,affīliō(“to adopt as son”), fromad- +‎fīlius +‎-ō. Equivalent toLatinaffīliō +‎-ate. CompareFrenchaffilié(noun).

Pronunciation

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Noun:

(UK, US)IPA^(key): /əˈfɪl.i.ət/
Audio(US): (file)

Verb

(UK, US)IPA^(key): /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/
Audio(US): (file)

Noun

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affiliate (pluralaffiliates)

Someone or something, especially, atelevision station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as atelevision network; a member of a group of associated things.
Our local TV channel is anaffiliate of NBC.
- 1999 July 29, Chris Sobieniak, “Weird 3d NFB animated short(any canadians in here?)”, inrec.arts.animation‎^[1] (Usenet):
  They used to been^[sic] more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBCaffiliate.

Derived terms

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Translations

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something that is affiliated

Afrikaans:please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian:съдружник (bg)(sǎdružnik),филиал (bg)(filial)
Dutch:filiaal (nl) n,dochteronderneming (nl) f
Finnish:tytäryhtiö (fi)
German:Tochterunternehmen (de) n,Tochtergesellschaft (de) f,Zweigunternehmen n,Zweigniederlassung f,Tochter (de) f,Geschäftspartner (de) m(business partner),verbundenes Unternehmen n,angeschlossenes Unternehmen n,angegliederte Gesellschaft f,Mitgliedsorganisation f
Hungarian:tagvállalat,tagszervezet (hu),leányvállalat (hu),fiókvállalat (hu)
Spanish:afiliado (es) m,afiliada (es) f,filial (es) f
Swedish:filial (sv) c,dotterbolag (sv) n

Verb

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affiliate (third-person singular simple presentaffiliates,present participleaffiliating,simple past and past participleaffiliated)

(transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
(transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; toally.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor],Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball,→OCLC:
  Is the soulaffiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
(transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
toaffiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
(transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- 1855,Herbert Spencer,The Principles of Psychology:
  How do these facts tend toaffiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
(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.