Affiliation
noun
The state of being connected or associated with something.
She denied any political affiliation with the group.
Often appears as...
- political affiliation
- religious affiliation
noun
An association of people for the purposes of a common cause.
The non-profit organization has affiliations with several regional hospitals.
Often appears as...
- trade union affiliation
- press affiliation
noun
A form of membership or partnership.
School affiliation provides certain benefits to students.
Often appears as...
- school affiliation
- business affiliation
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Academic
noun
In computing, the connection or linking of websites or applications for shared benefits.
By creating an affiliate link, his website was able to profit from the larger site's traffic.
Often appears as...
- affiliate link
- affiliate marketing
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Technical
noun
The state of being connected or associated with something.
She denied any political affiliation with the group.
Often appears as...
- political affiliation
- religious affiliation
noun
An association of people for the purposes of a common cause.
The non-profit organization has affiliations with several regional hospitals.
Often appears as...
- trade union affiliation
- press affiliation
noun
A form of membership or partnership.
School affiliation provides certain benefits to students.
Often appears as...
- school affiliation
- business affiliation
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In computing, the connection or linking of websites or applications for shared benefits.
By creating an affiliate link, his website was able to profit from the larger site's traffic.
Often appears as...
- affiliate link
- affiliate marketing
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Implied Support
Using 'affiliation' may suggest you support the group or cause you're connected with.
His affiliation with the charity suggests he endorses their cause.
Pro Tip 2/2Associate Discreetly
'Affiliation' sometimes implies a connection that isn't officially recognized.
He had a secret affiliation with the underground movement.
Pro Tip 1/2Implied Support
Using 'affiliation' may suggest you support the group or cause you're connected with.
His affiliation with the charity suggests he endorses their cause.
Pro Tip 2/2Associate Discreetly
'Affiliation' sometimes implies a connection that isn't officially recognized.
He had a secret affiliation with the underground movement.
Pro Tip 1/2Implied Support
Using 'affiliation' may suggest you support the group or cause you're connected with.
His affiliation with the charity suggests he endorses their cause.
Pro Tip 2/2Associate Discreetly
'Affiliation' sometimes implies a connection that isn't officially recognized.
He had a secret affiliation with the underground movement.
Compare with
allianceassociationcollaborateconnectionfellowshipmembershippartnershiprelationship
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Leana Wen: What your...
Participating doctors voluntarily disclose on a public website not just information about where we went to medical school and what specialty we're in, but also our conflicts of interest. We go beyond the Government in the Sunshine Act about drug company affiliations, and we talk about how we're paid. Incentives matter.
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or that he was too eager to collaborate with the political establishment including the president and congress. Others were uncomfortable with his former communist affiliation. But ultimately, both his belief in collaboration with the government and his membership to the communist party
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Jeff Hawkins: How brain...
Today's talk is about brains and -- Yay! I have a brain fan out there. If I could have my first slide, you'll see the title of my talk and my two affiliations. So what I'm going to talk about is why we don't have a good brain theory, why it is important that we should develop one
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Larry Brilliant: TED...
with whom I have a certain affection and a new affiliation -- in the year in which they were born, two million people died of smallpox. We declared smallpox eradicated in 1980. This is the most important slide that I've ever seen in public health, because it shows you
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You may be accidentally...
Finally, there is also reputation risk to consider for individuals and organizations that continue to maintain an affiliation with the tobacco industry. In countless surveys, the tobacco industry ranks as the world's least reputable industry.
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Debbie Millman: How...
and then shared for free among people to honor the higher power that they ascribed to. What's ironic is that the higher power actually had nothing to do with this. These early affiliations, they often shared identical characteristics,
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Yves Morieux: As work...
Acting against the interest of their company. Despite all the affiliation events, the celebration, the people initiatives, the leadership development programs to train managers on how to better motivate their teams.
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When I die, recompose me...
where we create soil and honor life. We want to bring back the aspect of ritual that's been diluted over the past hundred years as cremation rates have risen and religious affiliation has declined.
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
themselves so teenagers at them all these are called gams lose social affiliations that may last for half an hour and then the birds break up and they fly off again and then another
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My failed mission to...
when Pew Research asks them about their religious affiliation. Now, a couple of interesting things about Nones there are a lot of us, and we skew young.
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Leana Wen: What your...
Participating doctors voluntarily disclose on a public website not just information about where we went to medical school and what specialty we're in, but also our conflicts of interest. We go beyond the Government in the Sunshine Act about drug company affiliations, and we talk about how we're paid. Incentives matter.
Video examples
An unsung hero of the...
or that he was too eager to collaborate with the political establishment including the president and congress. Others were uncomfortable with his former communist affiliation. But ultimately, both his belief in collaboration with the government and his membership to the communist party
Video examples
Jeff Hawkins: How brain...
Today's talk is about brains and -- Yay! I have a brain fan out there. If I could have my first slide, you'll see the title of my talk and my two affiliations. So what I'm going to talk about is why we don't have a good brain theory, why it is important that we should develop one
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Larry Brilliant: TED...
with whom I have a certain affection and a new affiliation -- in the year in which they were born, two million people died of smallpox. We declared smallpox eradicated in 1980. This is the most important slide that I've ever seen in public health, because it shows you
Video examples
You may be accidentally...
Finally, there is also reputation risk to consider for individuals and organizations that continue to maintain an affiliation with the tobacco industry. In countless surveys, the tobacco industry ranks as the world's least reputable industry.
Video examples
Debbie Millman: How...
and then shared for free among people to honor the higher power that they ascribed to. What's ironic is that the higher power actually had nothing to do with this. These early affiliations, they often shared identical characteristics,
Video examples
Yves Morieux: As work...
Acting against the interest of their company. Despite all the affiliation events, the celebration, the people initiatives, the leadership development programs to train managers on how to better motivate their teams.
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When I die, recompose me...
where we create soil and honor life. We want to bring back the aspect of ritual that's been diluted over the past hundred years as cremation rates have risen and religious affiliation has declined.
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
themselves so teenagers at them all these are called gams lose social affiliations that may last for half an hour and then the birds break up and they fly off again and then another
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My failed mission to...
when Pew Research asks them about their religious affiliation. Now, a couple of interesting things about Nones there are a lot of us, and we skew young.
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Tim Jackson
British Economist
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
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James Carville
American Lawyer
I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.
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Leonard Mlodinow
American Physicist
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.
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Paul Fussell
American Historian
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
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Candace Kita
American Actress
Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American Educator
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Colin Powell
American Statesman
Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.
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Larry Brilliant
American Activist
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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Don DeLillo
American Novelist
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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Barbi Benton
American Model
The 'Playboy' affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.
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Tim Jackson
British Economist
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
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James Carville
American Lawyer
I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.
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Leonard Mlodinow
American Physicist
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.
Quote examples
Paul Fussell
American Historian
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
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Candace Kita
American Actress
Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
Quote examples
A. Bartlett Giamatti
American Educator
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Quote examples
Colin Powell
American Statesman
Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.
Quote examples
Larry Brilliant
American Activist
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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Don DeLillo
American Novelist
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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Barbi Benton
American Model
The 'Playboy' affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.
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