Dictionary Entry
affiliate
affiliate is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- 2transitive verb
To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
- 3transitive verb
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- 4transitive verb
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with.
- 5intransitive verb
To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
- 6noun
a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
"network affiliates"
- 7noun
a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization
- 8verb
join in an affiliation
"The two colleges affiliated"
"They affiliated with a national group"
- 9verb
keep company with; hang out with
"He associates with strange people"
"She affiliates with her colleagues"
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