AFFILIATE

Affiliate

An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity.

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affiliate

Noun

  1. Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
    The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.

Verb

  1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
  2. To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
    to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
  3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
  4. 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.


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