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Syndicate   /sˈɪndɪkət/  /sˈɪndəkˌeɪt/   Listen
noun
Syndicate  n.  
1.
The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
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.
3.
A more or less organized association of criminals controlling some aspects of criminal activity, in a specific area or country-wide; used loosely as a synonym for organized crime or the mafia.
4.
(Journalism) A commercial organization that purchases various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resells them to newspapers or other periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area.


verb
Syndicate  v. t.  To judge; to censure. (Obs.)


Syndicate  v. t.  (past & past part. syndicated; pres. part. syndicating)  
1.
To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
2.
To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.
3.
(Journalism) To purchase various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resell them to numerous periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area; a syndicated columnist.


Syndicate  v. i.  To unite to form a syndicate.





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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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