Definition of "affiliate"

affiliate

noun
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.
  Quotations
  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
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.
  Quotations
  Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
  1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball
3. (transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
4. (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
  Quotations
  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, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.