About The Word Affiliation

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Affiliation

Affiliation Meaning & Definition
Affiliation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Affiliation?

[n] the act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university"
[n] a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Affiliation: association | tie | tie-up

Related Terms | Find terms related to Affiliation: acceptance | accord | acculturation | addition | adjunct | admission | adoption | affairs | affinity | agglomeration | aggregation | agnation | agreement | alignment | alliance | amalgamation | Americanization | ancestry | Anschluss | apparentation | approximation | assemblage | assimilation | association | birth | blend | blending | blood | blood relationship | bloodline | body | bond | branch | breed | brotherhood | brothership | cabal | cahoots | cartel | centralization | church | citizenship by naturalization | citizenship papers | closeness | coadunation | coalescence | coalition | cognation | colleagueship | collegialism | collegiality | combination | combine | combo | common ancestry | common descent | communion | community | companionship | company | composition | comradeship | confederacy | confederation | confraternity | congeries | conglomeration | conjugation | conjunction | connectedness | connection | consanguinity | consociation | consolidation | conspiracy | contiguity | contrariety | cooperation | copartnership | copartnery | cousinhood | cousinship | culture shock | dealings | deduction | denomination | derivation | descent | direct line | disjunction | distaff side | division | ecumenism | embodiment | embracement | enation | encompassment | enosis | espousal | extraction | faction | family | fatherhood | federalization | federation | fellowship | female line | filiation | fraternalism | fraternity | fraternization | freemasonry | fusion | group | homology | hookup | house | inclusion | incorporation | integration | intercourse | intimacy | junction | junta | kindred | kinship | league | liaison | line | line of descent | lineage | link | linkage | linking | male line | marriage | maternity | matrilineage | matriliny | matrisib | matrocliny | meld | melding | membership | merger | motherhood | mutual attraction | nationalization | naturalization | naturalized citizenship | nearness | offshoot | order | organization | package | package deal | papers | partaking | participation | partnership | party | paternity | patrilineage | patriliny | patrisib | patrocliny | persuasion | phylum | propinquity | proximity | race | rapport | relatedness | relation | relations | relationship | religious order | schism | school | sect | sectarism | seed | segment | sept | sharing | sibship | side | similarity | sisterhood | sistership | society | sodality | solidification | sorority | spear side | spindle side | stem | stirps | stock | strain | succession | sword side | sympathy | syncretism | syndication | syneresis | synthesis | tie | tie-in | ties of blood | tie-up | unification | union | variety | version | wedding

See Also | association | reaffiliation | relationship

Affiliation In Webster's Dictionary

\Af*fil`i*a"tion\, n. [F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio.] 1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society. 2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. 3. Connection in the way of descent. --H. Spencer.

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