affiliate

filial, afiliado

Persona u organización vinculada oficialmente a una organización mayor.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: an affiliate of something (The station is an affiliate of a national network.)

Sinónimos: associate, member

Expresiones frecuentes: local affiliate, network affiliate, affiliate of something

afiliar, afiliarse

Vincular oficialmente a una persona o grupo con una organización, o incorporarse a ella.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

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

Sinónimos: associate, attach, connect

Antónimos: disaffiliate

Expresiones frecuentes: affiliate with something, affiliate to something, affiliate a group, affiliate a club

determinar la paternidad de

Establecer oficialmente que un hombre concreto es el padre de un niño.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: affiliate a child to someone (The court affiliated the child to the man named by the mother.)

Sinónimos: establish the paternity of

Expresiones frecuentes: affiliate a child, affiliate someone to someone