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October 09, 2007

Affiliate

an affiliate (noun) - smaller organisation officially connected with a larger organisation

affiliate (verb)

affiliated with, is an affiliate of - associated with, related to

is an affiliate of
affiliated with
affiliate of a company
affiliate firms
business affiliates
securities affiliate
affiliates of a multinational
hot competition among affiliates of big multinationals

World bank affiliate
NGO affiliate
local affiliate of TV station
regional affiliate
national affiliate
international affiliates

affiliate marketing
affiliate members
affiliate to a group
an affiliate relationship
affiliates of a political party
affiliates of the communist party
establish links with affiliates
set up affiliates
set up semi-autonomous affiliates
affiliate from churches
affiliates from trade unions
support from affiliates
secret affiliates
local affiliates of the transnational advertising agencies
has affiliates located in
restricted to affiliate members only
merge with its affiliate

foster affiliates
expand into new businesses by fostering affiliates
affiliate terms


Example sentences:

* The research center is an affiliate of Gallup, a famous marketing research firm.

* The firm established links with American affiliates.

* "Western Asset is an affiliate of Legg Mason, a New York stock exchange-listed financial services company."

* "The use of the Master Locksmiths Association (MLA) logo for business purposes is restricted to two categories of membership: companies which have already had locksmiths accepted as corporate members of the MLA and affiliate members."

* The parent company reached an agreement to merge with its international affiliate.

* The company is considerign adding some of its Asian assets to its Hong Kong affiliate.

* "Sumisho is an affiliate of Sumitomo Corp, the giant trading company."

* "The company got a bank's securities affiliate to underwrite its new issue of shares."

* "The securities affiliate may be sued by those who invested in the company on the basis of its negligent advice."

* "Once bankers have a direct/indirect stake in the activities of a securities affiliate, investment advice to customers will no longer be impartial."

* "The fear is that a bank might promote shares in companies underwritten by its own securities affiliate, even when more profitable investments are available elsewhere."

* The TV station WHDH-TV is a Boston affiliate of CBS.

* Tela Railroad Company is an affiliate of the multinational company United Brands.

* "The World Bank would advance disbursements from the Bank's soft loan affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), to the poorest countries."

* The local affiliate of Friends of the Earth, has mounted a campaign to monitor logging.

* "The BDAFSA is the national affiliate in Britain of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa."

* "Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to."

* The NLI Research Institute is an affiliate of Nippon Life Insurance.

* "In the financial sector, huge increases in the assets of Japanese affiliates, due largely to purchases of highly-leveraged US financial firms, have quickly enabled assets of Japanese-controlled firms in the US to exceed those of other countries."

* "Groups led by a company, such as NEC, an electronics firm, which have floated off old manufacturing subsidiaries and expanded into diverse new businesses by fostering affiliates."

* "The Communist Party and various affiliates control nearly all Soviet printing presses and broadcasting stations."

* "The corporation has subsidiaries and affiliates are located in: Australia, Bahamas, Canada, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, USA."

* "The terms 'postmodern,' `postmodernism' and their affiliates have not so far been accepted in Italy, except, for the most part, vaguely, in reports from overseas.

* "Provided further that this clause shall not apply to any claims initiated by , its agents, affiliates, employees, or other persons or entities related to."

* "A pressure group with membership composed of affiliates from the trade unions, friendly societies, Co-operative Society committees, the Free Church Council, and others, the Conference claimed at the outset to have the support of over ten million people."

* "These opened up new opportunities of producing components either for export to the big car companies in America or Europe, or for sale to the local affiliates of those same companies."

* "These trading houses have invested heavily in global networks of information-gathering affiliates and extensive communications systems."
* "Often, as in household products or industrial chemicals, hot competition among affiliates of big multinationals ensures both growth and cost-competitiveness."

* "The secret affiliates of the Communist party were known as cells."

* There may be a need to decentralize and set up semi-autonomous subsidiaries or affiliates."

* "The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which had placed barriers between commercial and investment banking, would be repealed in order to permit well-capitalized banks to set up affiliates in other sectors of the financial areas."

* The bank and four of its affiliates were charged with $20,000 million in global banking fraud.

* "The traveller is also liable to be bombarded with advertisements for global consumer goods placed by the local affiliates of the transnational advertising agencies."

* They should affiliate their union with a larger and more powerful one.

* I'm in some ways surprised that these non-political groups want to affiliate with a party.


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