syndicate

English

Etymology

From French syndicat (“office of syndic, board of syndics, trade union”), from French syndic (“administrator”), from Latin syndicus, from Ancient Greek σύνδικος (syndikos, “caretaker of issue”).

Noun

Wikipedia syndicate (plural syndicates)

1. A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
2. A similar group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
3. A chain of newspapers, or an agency that distributes features to multiple newspapers.

Synonyms

• (roughly) — business partners

Translations

group of individuals or companies

Finnish: syndikaatti (fi), ryhmittymä (fi)

group of gangsters

Finnish: syndikaatti (fi), rikollisjärjestö (fi)

chain of newspapers

Verb

syndicate (third-person singular simple present syndicates, present participle syndicating, simple past and past participle syndicated)

1. (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
2. (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
3. (transitive) To release media content through a syndicate to be published or broadcast through multiple outlets.

Related terms

• syndication

Translations

to be come a syndicate

to put under the control of a group

to release content through a syndicate

Anagrams

• asyndetic