affiliate: Meaning and Definition of

af•fil•i•ate

1. to bring into close association or connection: The research center is affiliated with the university.
2. to attach or unite on terms of fellowship; associate (usually fol. by with in U.S. usage, by to in Brit. usage): to affiliate with the church.
3. to trace the descent, derivation, or origin of: to affiliate a language.
4. to adopt.
5. to fix the paternity of, as an illegitimate child: The mother affiliated her child upon John Doe.

1. to associate oneself; be intimately united in action or interest.

1. a branch organization.
1. a business concern owned or controlled in whole or in part by another concern.
2. a subsidiary.
3. a person who is affiliated; associate; auxiliary.