affilier

Affilier is a French verb meaning to associate someone or something with a larger organization, to enroll or to attach to a group or program. It can denote bringing a person, company, or item under the umbrella of a parent organization, or admitting someone as a member of a club, association, or network. The reflexive form s’affilier describes the act of joining oneself to a group, such as a club, party, or professional association.

In usage, affilier is typically transitive: affilier une personne à une association, affilier une entreprise à un réseau. It is also used in reflexive form: s’affilier à un club, à un parti politique. The term is common in administrative, corporate, and marketing contexts.

In business and marketing, affilier appears in the compound "programme d’affiliation" (affiliate program). Here, a party (an affiliate, often a publisher or website) is enrolled to promote products or services and earns commissions on referrals or sales generated through its links. The word also appears in legal or organizational contexts when a subsidiary or partner entity is brought under the affiliation of a parent company.

See also: affiliation, affilié, affiliate marketing, political affiliation, membership. Examples illustrate the core idea: joining, attaching, or being connected to a group or program.