Affiliate

Definition: Affiliate

Affiliate

Noun

1. A subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization.

2. A subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization; "network affiliates".

Verb

1. Join in an affiliation; "They affiliated themselves with the organization".

2. Keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues".

3. Join in an affiliation; "The two colleges affiliated".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "affiliate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Affiliate \Af*fil"i*ate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Affiliated; Affiliating.]. (references)

Economics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Affiliate

Crosswords: Affiliate

References

• Cox Co., Ltd, an affiliate of Jusco Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Affiliate Selling: Building Revenue on the Web (reference)

• Coollawyer Affiliate Agreement [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Ophthalmology for the nonophthalmologist : a symposium presented by the Program in Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Texas Society for the Prevention of Blindness, an affiliate of the National Society for the Prevent (reference)

• Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants (reference)

• The Affiliate Masters Course - Full Version [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Affiliate (reference)

• Corporate Affiliate Handbook (reference)

• Emergency Medicine Residents Association-Medical Student Affiliate Membership (reference)

• Tesol Affiliate Conference Calendar Of Events (reference)

• United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association Affiliate Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Diabetes Update / The American Diabetes Association, D.C. Area Affiliate [and] [NIDDKD]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fellow students watching two U.S. Army medical students attempt a diagnosis of a leg injury under charge of surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, affiliate of New York University medical school, as part of U.S. Army's specialized training course. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

In addition, there are three Affiliate Centers. (references)

Business

AFNOR is an ISO (International Standards Office) affiliate. (references)

A second affiliate company was also created to pursue work in Romania. (references)

Active players include Kai Shing (Sun Hung Kai’s affiliate), Swire Properties, and Hang Yik (Henderson Lands’ affiliate). (references)

Civil Liberties

Mali

Voice of America has a local FM affiliate. (references)

Dominican Republic

Political parties frequently affiliate with their foreign counterpart organizations. (references)

Fiji

The Fiji Islands Media Association is an affiliate of the Pacific Islands News Association. (references)

Economic History

Albania

An affiliate of DDB worldwide has opened an office in Tirana. (references)

Pakistan

The local affiliate may end up as a competitor once the franchise agreement expires or is terminated. (references)

Poland

The ideal method is to provide service and customer support through a trained Polish representative or U.S. affiliate company. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

Trade unions freely affiliate with international bodies. (references)

MALAYSIA

They cannot affiliate with local firms or use their international firm's name. (references)

PANAMA

Union organizations at every level may and do affiliate with international bodies. (references)

Political Rights

Ethiopia

EPRDF candidates won 481 seats in the HPR, EPRDF affiliate candidates won 37 seats, opposition party candidates won 16 seats, and independent candidates won 13 seats. (references)

Trade

New Zealand

A wholly owned affiliate of State Street Bank is the primary custodial bank in market. (references)

Kenya

IFC is an affiliate of the World Bank and finances private sector investment projects in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism. (references)

Women

Japan

The AWF has reached an agreement with a Dutch affiliate to make compensation payments to former Dutch comfort women; government officials estimate that up to 100 Dutch women were forced to provide sexual services during World War II. However, the Government's refusal to pay direct compensation continues to draw international criticism. (references)

Worker Rights

Guinea

Unions affiliate freely with international labor groups. (references)

Central African Republic

Labor federations are free to affiliate internationally. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "affiliate": affiliate to ♦ affiliate to smth.. Additional references.

Ending with "affiliate": re-affiliate.

Albanian

anëtarësohem (enter, join), futem (be propagated, break in, dive, drive into, enter, get into, go in, interfere, join, join in, launch, lend oneself to, penetrate, plough into, plunge, sink in, slide, start, stuff, worm), bashkohem (aggregate, band together, coalesce, hook, inosculate, interflow, join, league, link up, merge, mix, rejoin, reunite, stick together, unite). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تتبع أصل شىء, ‏ضم إلى, ‏إنتسب إلى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдружник (ally, associate, pard, partner, sidekick), ставам филиал на, установявам бащинство, сдружавам (partner), филиал (branch, filiation, subsidiary, subsidiary company), клон (branch, filiation, office, province, ramus, sector), присъединявам (add, adjoin, aggregate, annex, join, range, tag, unite), приписвам бащинство, помощник (acolyte, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, aide, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutor, confederate, help, helper, lieutenant, mate, pander, second, secondary, subsidiary). (various references)

Chinese 

会员. (various references)

Czech

vstoupit do (enter, join), slouèit (bring together, fuse), přijmout za èlena. (various references)

Danish

filial (affiliation, branch). (various references)

Dutch

affiliëren, aannemen (accept, adopt, confirm, employ, guess, hire, presume, receive, suppose, surmise, take, take in). (various references)

Esperanto

filio (branch), filiigi, filiiĝi. (various references)

Faeroese

deild (affiliation, branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section, speciality), úthandil (affiliation, branch). (various references)

Farsi 

پیوستن (Adhere, Adjoin, Affix, Ally, Annex, Associate, Attach, Cement, Cleave, Cling, Connect, Couple, Join, Meet, Sort, Weld), مربوطساختن (Associate), مربوط (Apposite, Coherent, Coordinate, Dependent, Germane, Material, Pertinenet, Proper, Relevant), وابسته (Adjective, Akin, Attache, Attendant, Correlate, Dependent, Germane, Relative, Relevant, Subordinate), اشناکردن (Accustom, Acquaint, Induct, Introduce), درمیان خودپذیرفتن (Adopt), به فرزندی پذیرفتن (Adopt). (various references)

French

filiale (affiliation). (various references)

German

Schwestergesellschaft (sister company). (various references)

Greek 

σχετίζω (relate), προσκτώμαι, προσχωρώ (accede, join), υιοθετώ (adopt, espouse, foster), εισδέχομαι μέλη (coopt). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סת� ף, לספח (annex, attach), לס� וף (annex, attach), לס� ף (annex), ס� יף (branch, chapter). (various references)

Hungarian

tagul felvesz (to affiliate), felvesz tagnak, csatlakozik (accede, adjoin, join, join in, link, to abut, to affiliate, to fall into line, to fall into line with, to rally). (various references)

Indonesian

cabang (bough, branch, chapter, fork, furcation, offshoot, subdivison), bergabung (coalesce, collected together, fose, gather together, merge). (various references)

Italian

associare (accede to, associate, become a member, combine, couple, enter into partnership, join, take into partnership), affiliare (become a member). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

傍系 (collateral family, subsidiary line). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼうけい (collateral family, conspiracy, one's deceased elder brother, plot, subsidiary line), かにゅうしゃ (entrant, member, participant, subscriber). (various references)

Korean 

가입 (Affiliated, Affiliating). (various references)

Manx

cochiangley (associate ideas, coalition, cohere, combine, confederacy, confederate, conjoin, connect, continuity, join, league, relationship). (various references)

Norwegian

knytte til. (various references)

Pig Latin

affiliateay.(various references)

Portuguese

filial (affiliation, branch, branch office, daughterly, filial, subsidiary). (various references)

Romanian

atribui cuiva, ataşa la (bind), afilia (aggregate), adopta (adopt, assume, choose, embrace, espouse, follow, legitimate, receive, take), stabili paternitatea cuiva, primi ca membru (incorporate), înscrie (book, drop, engrave, enregister, enter, inscribe, insert, matriculate, record, register, write), înfia (father, legitimate). (various references)

Russian 

присоединять (anx, attach, join, tack). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustanoviti (establish, found, institute, pin down, restate), udružiti (associate, join, pool, unite), pripojiti se, pripojiti (incorporate, unite), primiti u članstvo. (various references)

Spanish

prohijar (adopt, mother), adaptar (accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, apply, arrange, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, put up, scale, suit, tune). (various references)

Swedish

ansluta (affiliation, combine, connect, connect up, join, plug in, unite, wire), uppta som medlem (initiate), uppta (absorb, admit, assimilate, engage, engross, enrol, enroll, ingest, occupy, open, pick up, receive, take up), dotterbolag (affiliated company). (various references)

Turkish

yakınlaşmak (be drawn to smb., knit up, near), tanımak (acknowledge, be acquainted with, be recognizant of, charter, get to know, identify, Ken, know, legitimatize, legitimize, own, recognize, spot), katmak (add, adjoin, ally, annex, append, include, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interpolate, join, load, mingle, mix, number, put in, run in, superadd, tack, tinge, weave), katılmak (accompany, adhere, ally, ally oneself, attach oneself to, attend, be a party to, be in the swim, be out of breath, be out of the swim, be superadded, chip in, club, club together, come into, contract in, contribute, enter, enter into, go in for, go with, identify oneself with, join, join in, mingle, number, partake, participate, play ball, precondition, put in an appearance, range, share, share in, sit for, sit in, stand in, subscribe, subscribe to, take a share in, take part, team up, weigh in with), kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness), evlat edinmek, birleşmek (agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, gang, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, knit up, link, make one, meld, merge, reunite, unite, weld), bağlamak (assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), bağlı şirket (affiliated company), üyeliğe kabul etmek (initiate), üye olmak (join, sit on). (various references)

Ukrainian

установлювати зв'язок (contact, liaise, relate), установлювати авторство, установлювати батьківство, усиновляти (adopt, legitimate, legitimize, mother), учасник (partaker, participant, partner, privy), філія (chapter), компаньйон (associate, companion, pard, partner), колега (associate, colleague, friend), при�"днувати (add, adjoin, affix, aggregate, associate), при�"днаний (adjoined, affixed, aggregated, appendant, associate), приймати в члени, приеднуватися. (various references)

Welsh

uno (amalgamate, join, unite), tadogi (father), mabwysiadu (adopt). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "affiliate": affiliated, affiliates. (additional references)

Words ending with "affiliate": disaffiliate. (additional references)

Words containing "affiliate": disaffiliated, disaffiliates, nonaffiliated, unaffiliated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Affiliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afficiate, affilate, affiliade, affiliare, affilliate, affixiate, affliate, afflitto, afiliate, afilliate, afwillite, caffelatte. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: filiate.

-3 letters: fetial, taffia.

-4 letters: aalii, alate, fatal, fetal, filet, flite, litai, tafia, telia.

-5 letters: alae, alef, alfa, alif, alit, fail, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, fiat, fief, fife, fila, file, flat, flea, flit, ilea, ilia, late, lati, leaf, left, lief, life, lift, lite, tael, tail, tala, tale, tali, teal, teff, tela, tiff, tile.

+1 letter: affiliated, affiliates.

+3 letters: affabilities, disaffiliate, unaffiliated.

+4 letters: affectability, affirmatively, disaffiliated, disaffiliates, nonaffiliated.