affiliate

filiale, affilié

Personne ou organisation officiellement rattachée à une organisation plus importante.

En anglais simple : A person or organization officially connected with a larger organization.

• Our company has a local affiliate.
• The network's affiliates broadcast the same news programme.
• She works for an affiliate of the international organization.

Comment l'utiliser : an affiliate of something (The station is an affiliate of a national network.)

Synonymes : associate, member

Expressions courantes : local affiliate, network affiliate, affiliate of something

affilier, s'affilier

Rattacher officiellement une personne ou un groupe à une organisation, ou s'y rattacher.

En anglais simple : To connect a person or group officially with an organization.

• The group decided to affiliate with the union.
• Several colleges are affiliated to this university.
• Is your club affiliated with a national organization?

Comment l'utiliser : affiliate with something (The club chose to affiliate with the national association.); be affiliated to something (The college is affiliated to a large university.)

Synonymes : associate, attach, connect

Contraires : disaffiliate

Expressions courantes : affiliate with something, affiliate to something, affiliate a group, affiliate a club

établir la paternité de

Reconnaître officiellement qu'un homme précis est le père d'un enfant.

En anglais simple : To officially decide that a particular man is a child's father.

• The court sought to affiliate the child.
• The judge affiliated the child to the defendant.
• Evidence was required before the child could be affiliated to him.

Comment l'utiliser : affiliate a child to someone (The court affiliated the child to the man named by the mother.)

Synonymes : establish the paternity of

Expressions courantes : affiliate a child, affiliate someone to someone