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af·fil·i·ate

(ə-fĭl′ē-āt′)

v. af·fil·i·at·ed, af·fil·i·at·ing, af·fil·i·ates

v.tr.

1. To adopt or accept as a member, subordinate associate, or branch: The HMO affiliated the clinics last year.

2. To associate (oneself) as a subordinate, subsidiary, employee, or member: affiliated herself with a new law firm.

3. To assign the origin of.

v.intr.

To become closely connected or associated: The two unions voted to affiliate.

n. (-ē-ĭt, -āt′)

A person, organization, or establishment associated with another as a subordinate, subsidiary, or member: network affiliates.

[Medieval Latin affīliāre, to adopt : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin fīlius, son; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

af·fil′i·a′tion n.

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affiliated

(əˈfɪlɪeɪtɪd)

adj

associated or connected with a larger group

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af•fil•i•at•ed

(əˈfɪl iˌeɪ tɪd)

adj.

being in close association; related: an affiliated club.

[1785–95]

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Adj.

affiliated - being joined in close association; "affiliated clubs"; "all art schools whether independent or attached to universities"

attached, connected

related, related to - being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics ; "painting and the related arts"; "school-related activities"; "related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces"

affiliated

adjective associated, united, joined, linked, allied, connected, incorporated, confederated, amalgamated, federated, conjoined the UN and its affiliated organisations

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Translations

مُنْتَسِب، مُنْضَم

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Angehörige Angehöriger angeschlossen

affilié

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tengdur

affiliato

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piederīgspievienotssaistīts

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隶属的

affiliated

[əˈfɪlɪeɪtɪd] ADJ [member, society] → afiliado (to, with a) affiliated company → empresa f filial or subsidiaria

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affiliated

[əˈfɪlieɪtɪd] adj → affilié(e)
affiliated company → filiale f
to be affiliated with, to be affiliated to → être affilié(e) à

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affiliated

[əˈfɪlɪeɪtɪd] adj affiliated (to or with) → affiliato/a (a), associato/a (a)
affiliated company → filiale f

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affiliated

(əˈfilieitid) adjective

connected with or joined to (a larger group etc) as a member. an affiliated branch of the union.

afˌfiliˈation noun

a connection with (an organization etc). What are his political affiliations?

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He was generally to be found at the Pen and Ink Club, an institution affiliated with the New York Players, of which he was a member.

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"The same, in fact, I am affiliated to," remarked the student.

"He may be affiliated to the police," was the thought that passed through his mind.

"As we have at present no one affiliated inside the fortress so as to make it possible to furnish him with a packet of poison, we have considered already some sort of retaliatory action--to follow very soon.

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Chicago had always been the storm-centre of the conflict between labor and capital, a city of street-battles and violent death, with a class-conscious capitalist organization and a class-conscious workman organization, where, in the old days, the very school- teachers were formed into labor unions and affiliated with the hod- carriers and brick-layers in the American Federation of Labor.

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- an institution for the propagation of pure light, not to be confounded with any others, though it is affiliated to many.

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It is known that he affiliated with none of the groups of terrorists.

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You'll have to be affiliated to Lodge 341, Brother McMurdo.

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By 1896 there were two hundred thousand miles of wire snugly wrapped in paper and lying in leaden caskets beneath the streets of the cities, and to-day there are six million miles of it owned by the affiliated Bell companies.

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APHA'S STATE and regional affiliated public health associations offered a full slate of activities during APHA's 139th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

APHA Affiliates offer array of events at 2011 Annual Meeting

What is new is that the current three traditional network owners did not realize that Fox, the fledgling fourth unofficial network, could be able to entice VHF affiliated stations to its line-up.