affiliate
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4.1
- noun
- /əˈfɪliˌeɪt/
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filial
- The television station is an affiliate of a major news network that broadcasts nationwide.
- members and affiliates
- a local affiliate
- subsidiaries and affiliates
So we're watching the our local NBC affiliate for for the news.
- So we're watching the our local NBC affiliate for for the news.
- WNBC, which is the, the New York City local NBC affiliate, flagship station.
- It's a, it's a, it's the Dominican League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.
- And that ended up being the first CrossFit affiliate gym in the world.
- I don't watch the Communist News Network, but I do watch their affiliate CNBC.
- A watch trade is when I buy something and sell something at the same time, basically to myself or my affiliate or my colleague.
- So he got fired and, and he is like he got a job in San Diego at Acbs affiliate in San Diego called KFMB.
- More coming like David Albert Craig, Calendar, Barry Lower, Sean Carroll, Julian Barber and more are also affiliates of the JBI.
- She's in a faculty affiliate at NYU Abu Dhabi Dhabi and her race, her research interests include race, demography and the sociology of science.
- Bill Wilson is the Louis P and Linder L Geiser University Professor at Harvard and a faculty affiliate of the Weiner Center.
- And what they, the affiliates were getting nervous.
- And none of my affiliates or the people at the public broadcast station PBS.
Examples
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We all know how important it is to keep our sponsors and affiliates happy.
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Okay, we're now going live to our Fox affiliate in Los Angeles.
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Unfortunately, we have lost contact with our affiliate in that area.
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We're going to switch now to a live feed from our Chicago affiliate.
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Individuals who do not use the name of an affiliate organization will represent only themselves.
Academic text (1990) -
This is the NBC affiliate in Athens.
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I am an affiliate reporter with Thunder Bay News.
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This is WLBT, the NBC affiliate in Jackson, Ms.
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There are numerous international institutions with regional affiliates or with administrative divisions along regional lines.
Academic text (1994) -
Fifty-nine women's NGOs and their affiliates serve a population of some four million Nicaraguan women and men.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
An organization that belongs to a larger group, for example a country in the United Nations
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3.2
A person who works with others in the same business or project
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A member or supporter of an organized group
How Connected
Surface Forms
Etymology
Affiliate comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and filius 'son'. It originally meant to make someone like a 'son' of a group, so an affiliate is an organization or person officially joined to a larger group.