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# affiliate

«affiliate» in Mova's school dictionary: **verb: To join or connect officially with a larger group…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (affiliate, affiliates, affiliated, affiliating); noun (an affiliate, affiliates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) verb: To join or connect officially with a larger group or organisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#m1)

2) noun: A smaller group, company or person that is officially connected to a bigger one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used about clubs, schools, TV channels and companies: a local station is an affiliate of a national network; a club is affiliated to a league. Phrases: «affiliated with/to», «an affiliate of».

### examples

- Our football club is affiliated to the county league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#x1)
- The local TV station is an affiliate of a big network. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#x2)
- The school is affiliated with the university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#x3)
- The two charities decided to affiliate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#x4)
- He is not affiliated with any party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#x5)
- Each affiliate sends a member to the meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/#x6)

### note

Verb said «a-FIL-ee-ate», noun often «a-FIL-ee-it». UK often «affiliated to», US «affiliated with». Noun of the action: affiliation.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affiliate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.