Affiliation or affiliate may refer to: *

Affiliate (commerce) In business, an affiliate is an entity that owns less than a majority stake in another's stock. Affiliations can also describe a type of relationship in which at least two different companies are subsidiaries of a larger parent company. Most rec ...

, a legal form of entity relationship used in Business Law *

Affiliation (family law) Affiliation or affiliate may refer to: * Affiliate (commerce), a legal form of entity relationship used in Business Law * Affiliation (family law), a legal form of family relationship * Affiliate marketing * Affiliate network or affiliation plat ...

, a legal form of family relationship *

Affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is a marketing arrangement in which Affiliate (commerce), affiliates receive a wiktionary:commission, commission for each visit, signup or sale they generate for a merchant. This arrangement allows businesses to Outsourcing, ...

Affiliate network An affiliate network acts as an intermediary between publishers ( affiliates) and merchant affiliate programs. It allows website publishers to more easily find and participate in affiliate programs which are suitable for their website (and thus g ...

or affiliation platform, a website connecting advertisers and affiliates *

Affiliated trade union In British politics, an affiliated trade union is one that is linked to the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee and the unions have reta ...

, in British politics, a trade union that has an affiliation to the British Labour Party *

Network affiliate In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or a ...

, a relationship between broadcasting companies *

Need for affiliation The need for affiliation (N-Affil) is a term which describes a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group. The term was popularized by David McClelland, whose thinking was strongly influenced by the pioneerin ...

, a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group *

Political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

affiliation * Religious affiliation, see

List of religions and spiritual traditions While the word religion is difficult to define and understand, one standard model of religion that is used in religious studies courses defines it as Many religions have their own narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that a ...

* Social affiliation, see

Tend and befriend Tend-and-befriend is a purported behavior exhibited by some animals, including humans, in response to threat. It refers to protection of offspring (tending) and seeking out their social group for mutual defense (befriending). In evolutionary psyc ...

Affiliated school An affiliated school (also affiliated college, federated school, federated college or federated university) is an educational institution that operates independently, but also has a formal collaborative agreement with another, usually larger instit ...

Affiliated operator In mathematics, affiliated operators were introduced by Murray and von Neumann in the theory of von Neumann algebras as a technique for using unbounded operators to study modules generated by a single vector. Later Atiyah and Singer showed that ...

, in math *

Affiliated institution A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a co ...

, similar to a consortium or trade association *

AffiliationQuebec AffiliationQuebec was a registered political party in Quebec, Canada from 2008 to 2012. It was strongly in favour of Canadian unity and opposed Quebec nationalism and sovereignty. Aside from the party's federalist agenda, its stated mission wa ...

a registered political party in Quebec *

Affiliating university A collegiate university is a university where functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Historically, the first collegiate university was the University of Paris and its first college was the Col ...

* ''Affiliated'' (album), 2006 rap album by MC Eiht * "Affiliated", song by Bhad Bhabie from the 2018 mixtape ''15''

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