affiliate

Noun

• a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
  • network affiliates
    

• a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization

Verb

• join in an affiliation
  • The two colleges affiliated
    
  • They affiliated with a national group
    

• keep company with; hang out with
  • He associates with strange people
    
  • She affiliates with her colleagues
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  consort , associate , assort