Affiliate vs Collaborator - What's the difference?
affiliate | collaborator | Related terms |
Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
* I. Taylor
To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
* H. Spencer
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to'' or ''with .
A person who works with others towards a common goal.
A person who cooperates traitorously with an enemy.
As nouns the difference between affiliate and collaborator
is that affiliate is someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things while collaborator is a person who works with others towards a common goal.As a verb affiliate
is to adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.affiliate
English
Noun
(en noun)- The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.
Verb
(affiliat)- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
