SYNDICATE

consortium, pool, syndicate

(noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose

syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family

(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

syndicate

(noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication

syndicate

(verb) sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

syndicate

(verb) organize into or form a syndicate

syndicate

(verb) join together into a syndicate; “The banks syndicated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

syndicate (plural syndicates)

A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.

(crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.

(mass media) A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc, and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.

Verb

syndicate (third-person singular simple present syndicates, present participle syndicating, simple past and past participle syndicated)

(intransitive) To become a syndicate.

(transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.

(transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.

Anagrams

• asyndetic, centidays, cystidean

Source: Wiktionary

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Syn"di*cate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]

1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet.

2. An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.

Syn"di*cate, v. t. Etym: [LL. syndicatus, p.p. of syndicare to censure.]

Definition: To judge; to censure. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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