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[ noun ] a social or business relationship

Examples

: "a valuable financial affiliation" "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team" "many close associations with England"

Used in print

(Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)

Both parties and the Ministry_of_the_Interior were busily at_work after the elections trying to unearth the political affiliations of the successful candidates and , thereby , give the elections a confidential but known degree of national political significance .

2
[ noun ] the act of becoming formally connected or joined

Examples

: "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university"

Used in print

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

And he has proclaimed greater or less affiliation between all Western_hemisphere languages .

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