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Syndicate   /sˈɪndɪkət/  /sˈɪndəkˌeɪt/   Listen
Syndicate

noun
1.
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.  Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob.
2.
An association of companies for some definite purpose.  Synonyms: consortium, pool.
3.
A news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication.
verb
(past & past part. syndicated; pres. part. syndicating)
1.
Join together into a syndicate.
2.
Organize into or form a syndicate.
3.
Sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations.



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"Syndicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... A Japanese syndicate has secured 300,000 acres in the Mexican State of Chiapas, on which a Japanese colony is to be established. The land is to be divided into lots of 20 acres, one lot to ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 29, May 27, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... satisfactorily. Until the previous day he had served Mr Ferguson in the capacity of office-boy; but there was that about Master Bean which made it practically impossible for anyone to employ him for long. A syndicate of Galahad, Parsifal, and Marcus Aurelius might have done it, but to an ordinary erring man, conscious of things done which should not have been done, and other things equally numerous left undone, he was ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... set to work. When there comes along a project of practical utility the money leaps nimbly enough from American pockets. The funds flowed in even without its being necessary to form a syndicate. Three hundred thousand dollars came into the club's account at the first appeal. The work began under the superintendence of the most celebrated aeronaut of the United States, Harry W. Tinder, immortalized by three ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
... W. had been chartered by a syndicate of wealthy manufacturers, equipped with a laboratory and a staff of scientists, and sent out to search for some natural product which the manufacturers who footed the bills had been importing from South ...
— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... Why, Malkiel is surely a myth, Hennessey, a number of people, a company, a syndicate, ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens


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