affiliated company noun [C]

a company that is closely connected to or controlled by another larger company or organization:

There are 33 000 people working in our wholly owned and affiliated companies.

SYN SUBSIDIARY

• consumer goods
• consumer group
• consumerism
• consumer loan
• consumer magazine
• consumer market
• consumer non-durables
• consumer panel
• consumer preference
• consumer price
• consumer price index
• consumer price inflation
• consumer promotion
• consumer protection
• consumer research
• consumer resistance
• consumers' cooperative
• consumer society
• consumer surplus
• consumer watchdog
• consumption
• consumption bundle
• consumption expenditure
• consumption function
• consumption goods