affiliation
- noun
- /əˌfɪliˈeɪʃən/
- Her long-standing affiliation with the charity has benefited many in need.
- religious affiliation
- political affiliation
- party affiliation
So they must feel some affiliation, some reluctance to just kill us.
- So they must feel some affiliation, some reluctance to just kill us.
- They have certain affiliations themselves which bleed into it.
- Russian servers which recorded names, party affiliations, emails of voters.
- And it, it's somewhat related to education, political affiliation, race and ethnicity.
- I can't tell is a loose affiliation of crooks, if you like.
- So I'd no sort of affiliation or love affair with the Lions.
- And I still, it's one of the reasons I'm maintaining an affiliation and a position at MIT.
- I had strong, you know, spiritual affiliation with, with Armenia and with Israel with, with.
- Because I knew because of my knowledge of the the various people and the affiliations that it wasn't going to get that job.
- So I'm not trying to rule out noise machines right now, and I have no affiliation with any company or anything in that space.
Examples
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Mrs. Manion, what is your religious affiliation?
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State your name, address, and affiliation, please.
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So the area that I moved to had no form of affiliation to anything.
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I have no affiliation here beyond people.
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Why should party affiliation influence my actions?
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Figures show that levels of union affiliation and activity reached a high in 1986.
Academic text (1999) -
To be considered for the nomination, he recently changed his party affiliation to Republican.
Fiction book (2002) -
It will include both Republicans and Democrats and people of no party affiliation.
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I use my MIT e-mail affiliation, just put MIT and a password.
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What's your party affiliation?
Synonyms
A relationship between people, things, ideas, or events
A formal agreement between countries or groups to work together
A connection that people have with family or friends
A connection between people, groups, or things, often from working together
A connection between things, for example air pollution and disease
A connection between people or groups to work together
Antonyms
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Affiliation comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and filius ('son'), so it originally meant making someone 'a son' or bringing them into a family. That's why an affiliate or an affiliation is a close connection or membership with a group, like being part of a family.