affiliate
affiliate
/əˈfɪlieɪt/
be affiliated with somebody/something
The hospital is affiliated with the local university.
be affiliated to somebody/something
The group is not affiliated to any political party.
2 transitive, intransitive affiliate (yourself) (with somebody/something) to join, to be connected with, or to work for an organization The majority of people questioned affiliated themselves with a religious group.
Word Origin
mid 18th cent.: from medieval Latin affiliat- ‘adopted as a son’, from the verb affiliare, from ad- ‘towards’ + filius ‘son’.
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