affiliate

関連会社、加盟組織

より大きな組織と正式なつながりを持つ人や組織。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： an affiliate of something (The station is an affiliate of a national network.)

類義語： associate, member

よく使う表現： local affiliate, network affiliate, affiliate of something

加盟する、所属させる

人や団体を組織に正式に所属させる、または自ら所属する。

やさしい英語で： 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?

使い方： affiliate with something (The club chose to affiliate with the national association.); be affiliated to something (The college is affiliated to a large university.)

類義語： associate, attach, connect

反対語： disaffiliate

よく使う表現： affiliate with something, affiliate to something, affiliate a group, affiliate a club

父親を認定する

ある男性が子どもの父親であると正式に認める。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： affiliate a child to someone (The court affiliated the child to the man named by the mother.)

類義語： establish the paternity of

よく使う表現： affiliate a child, affiliate someone to someone