Affiliation or affiliate may refer to: *

Affiliate (commerce) The term affiliate is used to describe the relationship between two entities wherein one owns less than a majority stake in the other's stock. Affiliations can also describe a type of relationship in which at least two different companies are subs ...

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

Affiliation (family law) In law, affiliation (from Latin ', "to adopt as a son") was previously the term to describe legal establishment of paternity. The following description, for the most part, was written in the early 20th century, and it should be understood as a h ...

, a legal form of family relationship *

Affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is a marketing arrangement in which affiliates receive a commission for each visit, signup or sale they generate for a merchant. This arrangement allows businesses to outsource part of the sales process. It is a form of ...

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 ge ...

or affiliation platform, a website connecting advertisers and affiliates * Affiliated trade union, 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 that was popularized by David McClelland and describes a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group; McClelland's thinking was strongly influenced by the pioneering ...

, 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 country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

affiliation * Religious affiliation, see List of religions and spiritual traditions * Social affiliation, see

Tend and befriend Tend-and-befriend is a 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 psychology, ten ...

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 institu ...

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 ...

, in math * Affiliated institution, 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 was ...

a registered political party in Quebec * Affiliating university * ''Affiliated'' (album), 2006 rap album by MC Eiht * "Affiliated", song by Bhad Bhabie from the 2018 mixtape ''15''

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