Affiliation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Affiliation \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.
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     2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the
        assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father;
        filiation.
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     3. Connection in the way of descent. --H. Spencer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  affiliation
       n 1: 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" [syn: {association}, {tie}, {tie-up}]
       2: the act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed
          the affiliation of the research center with the
          university"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  216 Moby Thesaurus words for "affiliation":
     Americanization, Anschluss, acceptance, accord, acculturation,
     addition, adjunct, admission, adoption, affairs, affinity,
     agglomeration, aggregation, agnation, agreement, alignment,
     alliance, amalgamation, ancestry, 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, tie-up, ties of blood,
     unification, union, variety, version, wedding