- to bring into close association or connection of action or interest: The research center is affiliated with the university.You can download resources to affiliate your event with our fundraising campaign.
- to attach or unite (oneself or another person) in fellowship or membership; associate (usually followed by with in U.S. usage, by to in British usage): He affiliated himself with almost every group dedicated to improving the economic condition of the individual farmer.Some of the Greek mixed-faith families affiliated their children to Orthodox Christianity, others to Islam.
- to trace the descent, derivation, or origin of: Competing hypotheses affiliate the language with either Afroasiatic or Nilo-Saharan.
- to integrate or extend membership to; adopt (as an affiliate): The National Golf Federation affiliated the club, giving it an immediate prestige.
- to connect or associate in thought: Many people tend to affiliate the sciences with better pay and job security.
- to fix the paternity of, as an illegitimate child: The mother affiliated her child upon John Doe.
- to associate oneself; be intimately united in action or interest:Our health advocacy group affiliates with hospitals equipped with the best facilities.
- a branch organization.
- Commerce.
- a business concern in which a larger concern owns a minority stake, or in which a third concern, the parent of both, owns a majority stake or has been given control by contract: The video was reportedly broadcast on STV, an affiliate of Global Television, on September 30, 1999.
- (especially in online retail) a company that retails goods on behalf of one or more other companies, paying them a commission: Cookies are used to track a customer's progress from the website of the affiliate through to the shopping cart of the merchant.
- (in U.S. tax law) subsidiary: Development Tax Credits are not available for property owned by the taxpayer or an affiliate prior to July 3, 2000.
- a person who is affiliated; associate; subordinate.
- to receive into close connection or association (with a larger body, group, organization, etc); adopt as a member, branch, etc
- to associate (oneself) or be associated, esp as a subordinate or subsidiary; bring or come into close connection
- a person or organization that is affiliated with another
- (as modifier)