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单词 affiliate
释义

affiliate

verb /əˈfɪlɪeɪt / [with object] (usually be affiliated to/with)
1Officially attach or connect (a subsidiary group or a person) to an organization: they are national associations affiliated to larger organizations...
  • She encouraged the Association to look at how members are affiliated with the organization.
  • At the time my favorite magazine was Boys Life, some publication affiliated with the Boy Scouts Organization.
  • Look for groups affiliated with a reputable organization or hosted by an expert.

Synonyms

associate with, be in league with, unite with, combine with, join with, join up with, join forces with, ally with, form an alliance with, align with, amalgamate with, merge with, coalesce with, federate with, confederate with, form a federation with, form a confederation with, team up with, band together with, cooperate with;
annex to, attach to, yoke to, incorporate into, integrate into
associated, allied, related, integrated, amalgamated, incorporated, federated, confederated, unified, connected, linked, joined, bound, belonging;
in league, in partnership
1.1(Of an organization) admit as a member: the main party agreed to affiliate four Conservative associations...
  • Fourteen years ago, just 171 organisations were affiliated, compared to 959 now.
  • The team wasn't affiliated in time for the opening day of the season but it's understood the lads will be in action this weekend.
  • It zeroed in on these youngsters in each district, trained them and affiliated them to the mission.
1.2 [no object] Officially join or become attached to an organization: almost all students affiliate to the Students' Union...
  • We appeal to all organisations and social movements to affiliate to the organising committee and get stuck into the task of raising money.
  • Our motion explains what the movement is about and calls on the union to affiliate to the organisation, provide support and invite speakers.
  • Commuters came from different persuasions which meant there was no need for him to affiliate to any political organisation.
noun /əˈfɪlɪət /
A person or organization officially attached to a larger body: the firm established links with American affiliates...
  • Finally, several national organizations have begun to help their local affiliates start charter schools.
  • Those affiliates and organizations assigned personnel to fill the slots.
  • Our technology affiliate has highly trained specialists who have earned their stripes.

Derivatives

affiliative

/əˈfɪlɪətɪv/ adjective ...
  • Political urgency demands, however, that none of this authority, whether it be filial or affiliative, stand unquestioned.
  • Thus, across generations, the suggested independent man child affiliative bond emerged and solidified itself into the neuro-hormonal systems of men.
  • Pharmacological experiments in rodents have demonstrated a role for vasopressin systems in learning and memory, aggression, and affiliative behaviors.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from medieval Latin affiliat- 'adopted as a son', from the verb affiliare, from ad- 'towards' + filius 'son'.

  • We talk about parent companies, so why not child companies? This is literally what an affiliated company is. The first meaning of affiliate was ‘to adopt as a son’, and the word ultimately came from Latin filius ‘son’, from which we also get filial (Late Middle English). By the mid 18th century affiliate was being used to mean ‘to adopt as a subordinate member of a society or company’.

Rhymes

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