affiliate

Meanings

Noun

  • 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.

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 connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
  • To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Origin

  • From Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare, from Latin ad + filius: compare French affilier.

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