SYNDICATES

Noun

syndicates

plural of syndicate

Anagrams

• cystideans

Source: Wiktionary


SYNDICATE

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.]

SYNDICATE

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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