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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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Noun	1.	affiliation - 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" tie-up, tie, association relationship - a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
	2.	affiliation - the act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university" association - the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" reaffiliation - affiliation anew

affiliation

noun association, union, joining, league, relationship, connection, alliance, combination, coalition, merging, confederation, incorporation, amalgamation, banding together The group has no affiliation to any political party.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

affiliation

noun

The state of being associated:

alliance, association, combination, conjunction, connection, cooperation, partnership.

Translations

إنْتِسَاب، إنْضِمَام

členstvípřičleněnípřidruženívztahvztahy

tilhørsforholdtilknytning

Adoption Zugehörigkeit

afiliación

kytkösyhteys

affiliation

hovatartozás

tengsl, samband

affiliazione

tilknytning tilslutning

аффилиация

bağlantı

所属单位隶属关系

affiliation

[əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən]

A. N

1. (= connection) → afiliación f
political affiliations → filiación fsing política

2. (Jur) → paternidad f

B. CPD affiliation order N → decreto m relativo a la paternidad
affiliation proceedings NPL → proceso m para determinar la paternidad

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

affiliation

[əˌfɪliˈeɪʃ^ən] n

(between groups, organizations) → affiliation f
affiliation with sth, affiliation to sth → affiliation à qch

(between a person and a group) → affiliation f
affiliation with sth, affiliation to sth → affiliation à qch
political affiliations → attaches fpl politiques

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

affiliation

→ Angliederung f (→ to, with an +acc); (state) → Verbund m; what are his political affiliations? → was ist seine politische Zugehörigkeit?

(Brit Jur) affiliation order → Verurteilung f → zur Leistung des Regelunterhalts; affiliation proceedings → gerichtliche Feststellung der Vaterschaft, Vaterschaftsklage f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

affiliation

[əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃ/ən] n → affiliazione f
to have affiliations with → essere affiliato/a a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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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On the way, by virtue of his political affiliations, he had been able to pick up a captain of detectives.

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This was a new era, and Daylight, the wealthy mine-owner, was loyal to his class affiliations. It was true, the old-timers who worked for him, in order to be saved from the club of the organized owners, were made foremen over the gang of chechaquos; but this, with Daylight, was a matter of heart, not head.

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It was the custom, he said, to send reporters to all the socialist meetings for the express purpose of misreporting and distorting what was said, in order to frighten the middle class away from any possible affiliation with the proletariat.

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However, the affiliated colleges will have to resubmit the affiliation fees to offer courses and colleges complain that the financial strain is significant since it was not too long ago that they had switched affiliations to sign up with QAU.

Colleges decry high rate of affiliation fees

Simply they do not want to change their political affiliations and go for voting differently', Shaista Abid, a voter of NA 54 said.

Youth abandons adopting political views, affiliations of parents

Commission report finds massive corruption involving sub-campuses, selling of degrees to thousands of students LAHORE:A Special Audit of the University of Sargodha (UoS) conducted by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) found Acting Registrar Mudassar Kamran involved in facilitating the illegal actions of then vice chancellor especially in granting unusual affiliations to private colleges and establishing a public-private partnership for the sub-campuses.

University of Sargodha acting registrar behind sub-campus scam: HEC audit

The company seeking to merge with Tribune Media has just agreed to a multi-year deal that keeps NBC affiliations in place at three O&Os, along with a Silver State property owned by partner Cunningham Broadcasting Group.

Four Sinclair Markets Stick With The Peacock

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc (Nasdaq:SBGI) and the ABC Television Network (ABC) reported on Wednesday a multi-year deal that extends affiliations across all Sinclair stations to 2022, including station affiliation agreements that had been scheduled to expire at the end of 2017.

Sinclair Broadcast and ABC extends and renews affiliation agreements till 2022

MUZAFFARABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has asked the British living Kashmiris to vote for their native candidates irrespective of their party affiliations in coming Britain's election on June 8.

AJK PM asks British Kashmiris to vote native candidates

The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) licenses Scopus, in part, because Scopus indexes author affiliations with affiliation identifiers that promise to make identification of UNMC's publications easy [1, 2].

Gaps in affiliation indexing in Scopus and Pubmed

-- CVS Health last month announced new clinical affiliations with health care providers in four states and said the partnerships will improve customers' access to health care and improve their medication adherence.