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affiliate
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As a noun, affiliate means someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network. As a verb, it means adopt.
Meanings of affiliate
10 meaningsnoun
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.”
A subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organizationperson
A subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
“network affiliates”
verb
To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
To bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
To fix the paternity of
“to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another”
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
followed by "to""with"To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
Join in an affiliation
“The two colleges affiliated”
“They affiliated with a national group”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).