Crossword clues for affiliate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affiliate \Af*fil"i*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Affiliating.] [LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier.]
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To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
--I. Taylor. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
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To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
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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.
Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.
Affiliate \Af*fil"i*ate\, v. i. To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, from affiliate (v.).
1846, from affiliate (v.).
1761, from Latin affiliatus, past participle of affiliare "to adopt" (see affiliation). Outside legal use, always figurative. Related: Affiliated; affiliating.
Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. 2 (context transitive English) To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child. 3 (context transitive English) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. 4 (context intransitive English) 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''.
WordNet
n. a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization
a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization; "network affiliates"
v. join in an affiliation; "They affiliated themselves with the organization"
keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, associate, assort]
join in an affiliation; "The two colleges affiliated"
Wikipedia
An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity.
Affiliate (Notes of a Radio Presenter) (Russian: Филиал ) is a novel by the Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov. It was written in November 1987 in New York.
Usage examples of "affiliate".
Cassy looked up as Langley Peterson arrived in the conference room, nodded to her and took his seat at the other end of the table Also present were Denny Ladler, Alicia Washington and the executives in charge of advertising sales, publicity and promotion, public relations and affiliate relations.
In the latter part of April, 1919, the Executive Committee of the Socialist party of Italy resolved to sever its connection with the International Socialist Bureau and the Berne Conference, in which there were many reactionary Socialists, and to affiliate with the newly established Moscow International, consisting of the various National groups of Socialists giving whole-hearted support to Lenine and the Bolsheviki.
It was agreed that we would not affiliate with any International that excluded the Russian Comrades, who were fighting world imperialism, or the Comrades opposed to the Ebert-Scheidemann regime in Germany.
International, with which the Socialist party cares to affiliate itself, are the same.
Of the other important countries, the Socialist parties of Switzerland, Italy and the United States, and the British Socialist party have expressed their intention to affiliate with it.
The affiliate species of Starfleet, and perhaps most specifically the humans of Earth, have a gift to give the Vulcan species that is surely a match for any you give us.
The screen blazed white again and then faded to the original map of the United States, outlined in blue upon black, red affiliate points twinkling, white lines leading to New York.
From his organization, the conglomerate orchestrated the printing and distribution of one hundred seventy-six newspapers, twelve magazines, seventeen on-line research companies and united two hundred seven affiliate newsrooms across the U.
East Berlin to cut the ribbon on the DBS News affiliate there after the Wall fell.
Corporation does not want to be judged by their corrections affiliate only.
The van, which belonged to a CBA affiliate station, KDLS-TV, had been setting up for a sports broadcast from Arlington Stadium, but now that story had been abandoned and the van dispatched to DFW.
There always was and it would be broadcast-in the East by affiliate stations who did not take the first feed, widely in the Midwest, and most Western stations would record the second feed for broadcast later.
WCBA, a wholly owned affiliate of the CBA network, was a prestigious local station serving the New York area.
Undoubtedly NBC News would receive a report swiftly from their affiliate, just as CBA had.
This was to allow control rooms of affiliate stations which had not been broadcasting the network program to interrupt their local programming and take the special bulletin.