affiliative
- adjective
- /əˈfɪliˌeɪtɪv/
- Formal
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afiliativo
- The organization's affiliative efforts helped build partnerships with several local charities.
Examples
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They adopted an affiliative strategy to strengthen their alliances with other nonprofits.
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Moreover, a diasporic reading of Sundogs highlights Maracle's affiliative politics and her views on Indigenous nation building.
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Used exclusively, however, the affiliative approach has its limitations.
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This approach retains information on each student's affiliative partners and makes it possible to determine his or her position within the classroom social structure.
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As studies of the "happy warrior" style of leadership have shown, happiness/reassurance displays have special resonance in American politics because they indicate an affiliative and egalitarian approach to leadership.
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The specific characteristics that differentiated the affiliative partners of students with EBD from other students were significantly lower levels of peer-assessed cooperation, leadership, and academic ability.
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To be effective, many female leaders need to temper their authoritativeness along lines discussed in Part III below or adopt affiliative or democratic styles, which are more consistent with traditionally feminine attributes.
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However, the social network responses refer to general affiliative patterns, whereas the social-play co-occurrence profiles depict playmates for the 10 specific activities.
Academic text (1993) -
Thus, although superior school performance does not follow directly from our definition of Affiliative Tendency, it could be mediated by attractive self-presentation and/or greater efforts designed to endear oneself to teachers.
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These two constructs can be considered independent for the purpose of analyses because (a) the data for the two measures were collected at different times, and (b) whereas playmate associates focused on playmates for specific activities, cluster membership focused on subjects' conceptions of their peers' general affiliative patterns.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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Officially connected to a larger organization
Relating to a political system where different groups share power
Antonyms
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Affiliative comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and filius 'son', and it originally meant 'to make someone a son' or to join them to a family. So an affiliative program or partnership is about being officially 'joined' to another organization, much like being part of the same family.