affiliate
/əˈfɪl.i.et/
Dictionary
noun
- Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
"Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC."
verb
- To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
- To bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- (said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
"to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another"
- To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- (followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
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