syndicate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Wikipedia syndicate (plural syndicates)
- A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- A similar group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
- A chain of newspapers, or an agency that distributes features to multiple newspapers.
- The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council or body of syndics.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Burnet to this entry?)
Synonyms[edit]
- (roughly) — business partners
Translations[edit]
group of individuals or companies
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group of gangsters
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chain of newspapers
Verb[edit]
syndicate (third-person singular simple present syndicates, present participle syndicating, simple past and past participle syndicated)
- (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
- (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
- (transitive) To release media content through a syndicate to be published or broadcast through multiple outlets.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to be come a syndicate
to put under the control of a group
to release content through a syndicate
