affiliate

Plural: affiliates

Noun

• a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization
• a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
  • "network affiliates"
• 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.

Verb

• keep company with; hang out with
  • "She affiliates with her colleagues"
• join in an affiliation
  • "The two colleges affiliated"
  • "They affiliated with a national group"
• To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
• to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
• To fix the paternity of
• To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
• To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Examples

• Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.
• to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another

Synonyms

associate, assort, consort