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n. The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.

n. A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.

n. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

n. The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

n. Connection in the way of descent.

n. Adoption; association in the same family or society; hence, consanguinity or kinship of feeling or character.

n. Association in general; relation; connection; friendship; alliance.

n. In law, the act of imputing or of determining the paternity of a child, and the fixing upon the father the obligation to provide for its maintenance.

n. The fathering of a thing upon any one; the assignment of anything to its origin; connection by way of derivation or descent: with upon.

n. the act of becoming formally connected or joined

n. a social or business relationship

"The label affiliation has been creatively advantageous; through Lost Highway he has met various collaborators, including several of the songwriters who share credits on "Pass It Around.""

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Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

ideology    solidarity    autonomy    indoctrination    orientation    rivalry    ethnicity    organisation    disability    grouping