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noun

affiliate

a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization

In a sentence

Six example sentences with affiliate, each labelled with its topic.

  • The parent company owns a small affiliate in Lisbon that handles shipping but cannot set prices on its own.

    Business

  • The league's development squad is an affiliate of the main club, sharing coaches and sending players upward when injuries hit.

    Basketball

  • The studio launched a horror affiliate that releases four cheap films a year while answering to the same board.

    Movies

  • The teaching hospital's rural affiliate sends its complex cases to the city and gets visiting specialists in return.

    Medicine

  • The party's youth affiliate runs its own conference but must follow the platform the senior leadership adopts.

    Politics

  • The label's jazz affiliate signs its own artists, though every contract still goes to the parent company for approval.

    Music

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