The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
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]
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]
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]

syndicate, v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of syndicare to censure.].

To judge; to censure. [1913 Webster]

syndicate, v. t.

To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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]

syndicate, v. i.

To unite to form a syndicate. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

syndicate, n. & v.
--n.
1 a combination of individuals or commercial firms to promote some common interest.
2 an association or agency supplying material simultaneously to a number of newspapers or periodicals.
3 a group of people who combine to buy or rent property, gamble, organize crime, etc.
4 a committee of syndics.
--v.tr.
1 form into a syndicate.
2 publish (material) through a syndicate.

Derivative

syndication n.

Etymology

F syndicat f. med.L syndicatus f. LL syndicus: see SYNDIC

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THESAURUS

syndicate

Aktiengesellschaft, Black Hand, British Cabinet, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, add, advisory body, affiliate, aktiebolag, ally, amalgamate, assembly, assimilate, associate, association, bench, black market, blend, bloc, board, body corporate, body of advisers, bootlegging, borough council, brain trust, 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, 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, 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, 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, usury, utility, white slavery

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syndicate

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

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