'Syndicate' definitions:
Definition of 'syndicate'
(from WordNet)
noun
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family]
noun
An association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: consortium, pool, syndicate]
noun
A news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
verb
Join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated"
verb
Organize into or form a syndicate
verb
Sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
Definition of 'Syndicate'
From: GCIDE
- Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. syndicated; p. pr. & vb. n. syndicating.]
- 1. To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [PJC]
Definition of 'Syndicate'
From: GCIDE
- Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of syndicare to censure.] To judge; to censure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Syndicate'
From: GCIDE
- Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]
- 1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
- 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. [PJC]
Definition of 'Syndicate'
From: GCIDE
- Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. i. To unite to form a syndicate. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'syndicate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- add,
- advisory body,
- affiliate,
- aktiebolag,
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- ally,
- amalgamate,
- assembly,
- assimilate,
- associate,
- association,
- bench,
- Black Hand,
- black market,
- blend,
- bloc,
- board,
- body corporate,
- body of advisers,
- bootlegging,
- borough council,
- brain trust,
- British Cabinet,
- business,
- business establishment,
- cabinet,
- camarilla,
- cartel,
- chain,
- chamber,
- chamber of commerce,
- city council,
- coalesce,
- combine,
- come together,
- commercial enterprise,
- common council,
- compagnie,
- company,
- compound,
- comprise,
- concern,
- confederate,
- conference,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- congress,
- connect,
- consolidate,
- consolidating company,
- consortium,
- consultative assembly,
- copartnership,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- Cosa Nostra,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of ministers,
- council of state,
- council of war,
- county council,
- court,
- deliberative assembly,
- diet,
- directory,
- distribute,
- divan,
- diversified corporation,
- embody,
- encompass,
- enterprise,
- firm,
- flux,
- fuse,
- gambling,
- gangdom,
- gangland,
- gray market,
- group,
- holding company,
- house,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- include,
- incorporate,
- industry,
- integrate,
- interblend,
- interfuse,
- join,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- junta,
- kitchen cabinet,
- league,
- legislature,
- loan-sharking,
- lump together,
- Mafia,
- mafia,
- make one,
- meld,
- melt into one,
- merge,
- mix,
- monopoly,
- moonshining,
- narcotics traffic,
- operating company,
- organization,
- organized crime,
- parish council,
- partnership,
- plunderbund,
- pool,
- privy council,
- prostitution,
- protection racket,
- public utility,
- put together,
- racket,
- reembody,
- roll into one,
- Sanhedrin,
- serialize,
- shade into,
- shady dealings,
- solidify,
- soviet,
- staff,
- stock company,
- syncretize,
- syndication,
- synod,
- synthesize,
- the Mafia,
- the mob,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- the underworld,
- trade association,
- traffic in women,
- tribunal,
- trust,
- unify,
- union,
- unite,
- US Cabinet,
- usury,
- utility,
- white slavery