'affiliation' definitions:
Definition of 'affiliation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: affiliation, association, tie, tie- up]
noun
The act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university"
Synonyms of 'affiliation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- accord,
- acculturation,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- admission,
- adoption,
- affairs,
- affinity,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agnation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- Americanization,
- ancestry,
- Anschluss,
- apparentation,
- approximation,
- assemblage,
- assimilation,
- association,
- birth,
- blend,
- blending,
- blood,
- blood relationship,
- bloodline,
- body,
- bond,
- branch,
- breed,
- brotherhood,
- brothership,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- church,
- citizenship by naturalization,
- citizenship papers,
- closeness,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- cognation,
- colleagueship,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- communion,
- community,
- companionship,
- company,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- consanguinity,
- consociation,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- contiguity,
- contrariety,
- cooperation,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- culture shock,
- dealings,
- deduction,
- denomination,
- derivation,
- descent,
- direct line,
- disjunction,
- distaff side,
- division,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- embracement,
- enation,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- espousal,
- extraction,
- faction,
- family,
- fatherhood,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- female line,
- filiation,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- fusion,
- group,
- homology,
- hookup,
- house,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intercourse,
- intimacy,
- junction,
- junta,
- kindred,
- kinship,
- league,
- liaison,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- male line,
- marriage,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- meld,
- melding,
- membership,
- merger,
- motherhood,
- mutual attraction,
- nationalization,
- naturalization,
- naturalized citizenship,
- nearness,
- offshoot,
- order,
- organization,
- package,
- package deal,
- papers,
- partaking,
- participation,
- partnership,
- party,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- persuasion,
- phylum,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- race,
- rapport,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- religious order,
- schism,
- school,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- seed,
- segment,
- sept,
- sharing,
- sibship,
- side,
- similarity,
- sisterhood,
- sistership,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- succession,
- sword side,
- sympathy,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- ties of blood,
- unification,
- union,
- variety,
- version,
- wedding