affiliate

Noun

affiliate (plural affiliates)

1. 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.
   • They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.1999 July 29, Chris Sobieniak, “Weird 3d NFB animated short(any canadians in here?)”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet)

Verb

UK/əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/

affiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)

1. (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
2. (transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
   • Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC
3. (transitive) To fix the paternity of
   • to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
4. (transitive) 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?1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology
5. (intransitive) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.