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say it: uh-FIL-ee-ayt
affiliate is a noun and verb meaning "a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization
a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
“network affiliates”
keep company with; hang out with
“He associates with strange people”
“She affiliates with her colleagues”
join in an affiliation
“The two colleges affiliated”
“They affiliated with a national group”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for affiliate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.