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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
affiliation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
communist
▪ The suggestion of Communist affiliation to the Labour Party was regarded as an unwarrantable departure from principle.
international
▪ Major international affiliations: Arab League.
major
▪ Health care is switching from a cottage industry of small hospitals to major affiliations in a huge health-care system.
political
▪ There are, however, significant differences between the political affiliations of 585 and 587.
▪ She practices her opening, which includes several hard-to-pronounce personal names and political affiliations, not to mention satellite locations.
▪ It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation.
▪ Once his political affiliation was declared as Republican, Powell came under considerable pressure to run against Bill Clinton in 1996.
▪ The political affiliations of a newspaper, its locality and the demographics of its readership should all be taken into account.
▪ Can political affiliation be considered in the hiring of teachers?
▪ Their political affiliation was by no means uniform.
religious
▪ Like the Robinson-Pattisson connection they could also easily cross lines of religious affiliation.
▪ Maury Maverick managed to pry out of the Pentagon the religious affiliations of the 220 who died that day in Beirut.
▪ The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations, and the minimum age is 15 years.
▪ Does he have religious affiliation and whatnot?
▪ But hypersensitivity about colour or religious affiliation can be counterproductive.
▪ In controversy abolitionists found arguments in common whatever their religious affiliations.
▪ She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
■ NOUN
party
▪ Several other parties were nevertheless represented in the new Cabinet, although party affiliations were not detailed in the official list.
▪ In all of our countries we were interested in the party affiliations of our respondents.
▪ There are no easy party affiliations here.
▪ The council race is non-partisan but party affiliation often helps in recruiting volunteers and raising money.
▪ History is against the challengers, and not because of party affiliation.
▪ A typical campaign consists of politicians repeatedly shouting their name, party affiliation, and other slogans through loudspeakers.
▪ Most appeared to be voters who filed new affidavits because they had moved or because they wanted to change party affiliation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They asked about his religious beliefs and political affiliation.
▪ Throughout his long life, he retained his affiliation to the Labour Party.
▪ What are her political affiliations?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time the executive resisted a renewed attempt by sympathisers for the affiliation of the Communist Party.
▪ History is against the challengers, and not because of party affiliation.
▪ Many people were arrested for their political affiliations.
▪ Most appeared to be voters who filed new affidavits because they had moved or because they wanted to change party affiliation.
▪ Of forty-four ministers whose affiliations are known, twenty-one have never been members of any fraternal organization.
▪ University affiliations are at times still more restrictive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affiliation

Affiliation \Af*fil`i*a"tion\, n. [F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio.]

  1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

  2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

  3. Connection in the way of descent.
    --H. Spencer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
affiliation

1751, "adoption," from French affiliation, from Medieval Latin affiliationem (nominative affiliatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin affiliare "to adopt a son," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + filius "son" (see filial). Figurative sense of "adoption by a society, of branches" first recorded 1799 (the verb affiliate in this sense is from 1761).

Wiktionary
affiliation

n. 1 The relationship resulting from affiliate one thing with another. 2 A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.

WordNet
affiliation
  1. n. a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: association, tie, tie-up]

  2. the act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university"

Wikipedia
Affiliation (family law)

In law, '''affiliation ''' (from Latin ad-filiare, to adopt as a son) is the term to describe a partnership between two or more parties.

Affiliation
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Affiliation or affiliated may refer to

  • Affiliate (commerce), a legal form of entity relationship used in Business Law
  • Affiliation (family law), a legal form of family relationship
  • Affiliate marketing
  • Affiliation platform or affiliate network, a website connecting advertisers and affiliates
  • Affiliated trade union, in British politics, a trade union that has an affiliation to the British Labour Party
  • Network affiliate, a relationship between broadcasting companies
  • Need for affiliation, a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group
  • Political party affiliation
  • Religious affiliation
  • Social affiliation (tend and befriend)
  • Affiliated trade union
  • Affiliated school
  • Affiliated operator, in math
  • Affiliated institution
  • AffiliationQuebec a registered political party in Quebec
  • Affiliating university
  • Affiliated (album), 2006 rap album by MC Eiht

Usage examples of "affiliation".

Americans, regardless of party affiliation or ideology, especially since the Supreme Courtprior to this casewas among the last institutions whose integrity remained above reproach.

Though the level of this outrage tends to mirror party affiliation, it is safe to say that the degree of confusion over what actually happened is not limited to one party.

We have been brought up to believe that justices shed their party affiliation when they put on the robe, just as they are supposed to give no advantage to friends or former colleagues.

When acting in that capacity, they have taken an oath to be politically blind to the identity, party affiliation, and ideology of the litigant-candidates whose case is before them.

In this respect, the decision in the Florida election case may be ranked as the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history, because it is the only one that I know of where the majority justices decided as they did because of the personal identity and political affiliation of the litigants.

The Senate and the president could begin by jointly appointing a nonpartisan commission to gather the names of the two dozen or so most distinguished lawyers and judges in the nation, assessed by peer review under the broadest criterion of greatness, without regard to party affiliation, race, gender, ideology, or other such factors.

Emergency Convention, favored affiliation with the associates of the Moscow Conference as constituting the Third International.

On November 9th delegates of eight independent unions in different industries, representing something like 250,000 workers, met in New York City and took the first steps for an affiliation with the I.

Socialist Party of the United States in voting for affiliation with Moscow.

Socialist commonwealth be imposed or exacted as condition of affiliation with the Third International.

A guilt-by-association mentality developed in the Detroit Police Department and a suspect with no gang affiliation could be labeled a Purple Gangster.

Testifiers will please state their affiliation, their position on the proposal, and then make their statement.

Concern for the sciences is all very well, but scientific information has a way of being discovered in many places at almost the same time: it is unlikely that discontinuing our affiliation with the Federation would cripple its sciences.

Was race or party affiliation a matching criterion in compiling that list?

She had barely objected when he told her of his new affiliation with the Beller people, and she had said nothing in these past ten days, when the pressure of conflicting cross-currents had kept him bottled up within himself, unloving, cold.