affiliate means someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
affiliate is pronounced /əˈfɪl.i.ət/.
noun
- Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.“Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.”
verb
- To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
- to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.“Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?”
- To fix the paternity of“to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another”
- To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.“How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?”
- To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.