English

Noun

affiliate ‎(plural affiliates)

1. Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.

   Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.

Translations

Verb

affiliate ‎(third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)

1. (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
   • I. Taylor

     Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?

2. (transitive) To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.

   to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another

3. (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?

4. (intransitive) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to or with.

Derived terms

• affiliate with
• affiliate to
• affiliation

Translations

Italian

Verb

affiliate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of affilare
2. second-person plural present indicative of affiliare
3. second-person plural imperative of affiliare
4. second-person plural present subjunctive of affiliare
5. feminine plural of affiliato