AFFILIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affiliate mean? 

• AFFILIATE (noun)
  The noun AFFILIATE has 2 senses:

1. a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization

2. a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization

  Familiarity information: AFFILIATE used as a noun is rare.

• AFFILIATE (verb)
  The verb AFFILIATE has 2 senses:

1. keep company with; hang out with

2. join in an affiliation

  Familiarity information: AFFILIATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFILIATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("affiliate" is a kind of...):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

Derivation:

affiliate (join in an affiliation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

network affiliates

Hypernyms ("affiliate" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Derivation:

affiliate (join in an affiliation)

• AFFILIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they affiliate    ... he / she / it affiliates   
Past simple: affiliated   
Past participle: affiliated   
-ing form: affiliating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep company with; hang out with

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

affiliate; associate; assort; consort

Context example:

She affiliates with her colleagues

Hypernyms (to "affiliate" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affiliate"):

ally (become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage)

date; go out; go steady; see (date regularly; have a steady relationship with)

accompany; companion; company; keep company (be a companion to somebody)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Join in an affiliation

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

They affiliated with a national group

Hypernyms (to "affiliate" is one way to...):

fall in; get together; join (become part of; become a member of a group or organization)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

affiliate (a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization)

affiliate (a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization)

affiliation (the act of becoming formally connected or joined)

affiliation (a social or business relationship)

 Context examples 

It is affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and was designated as an NCI comprehensive cancer center in 1974.

(Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

It is affiliated with the Virginia Commonwealth University and has been funded by an NCI Cancer Center Support Grant since 1975.

(Massey Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

It is affiliated with University of Iowa and was designated as an NCI comprehensive cancer center in 2000.

(Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

There are more than 60 institutions and departments that have been recognized by EORTC as affiliated.

(European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The Center incorporates the expertise and resources from the colleges and institutes at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as well as its affiliated hospital, The Nebraska Medical Center.

(Eppley Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A hospital that is not affiliated with a university.

(Non-Academic Hospital, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-programmatically Aligned Cancer Center Research Members are Cancer Center faculty and staff not affiliated with any of its research programs.

(Non-programmatically Aligned Cancer Center Research Member Section of Cancer Center Support Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)

A hairless Sprague-Dawley rat from the Charles River affiliate IFFA Credo (Labresle, France).

(OFA SD, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A relative of the patient or an individual affiliated with the patient or/and patient family.

(Patient Family Member Or Friend, NCI Thesaurus)

Organization or institution with which the human observer is affiliated for the context of the current observation.

(Observer Organization, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)