syndicate
syndicate
Definition
syn·di·cate (sin′də kit; for v., -kāt′)
noun
- a group or council of syndics
- an association of individuals or corporations formed to carry out some financial project requiring much capital
- any group organized to further some undertaking
- ☆ an informal association of criminals controlling a network of vice, gambling, etc.
- ☆ a group of newspapers, owned as a chain
- ☆ an organization that sells special articles or features for publication by many newspapers or periodicals
Etymology: Fr syndicat < syndic, syndic
transitive verb -·cat′ed, -·cat′·ing
- to manage as or form into a syndicate
- ☆
- to sell (an article, feature, etc.) through a syndicate for publication in many newspapers or periodicals
- to sell (a program, series, etc.) to a number of radio or TV stations
intransitive verb
to form a syndicate
syn′·di·ca′·tion noun
syn′·di·ca′·tor noun
syndicate
Synonyms
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n.
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Synonyms
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Law Definition
n
A group of corporations that band together for a single enterprise
that each alone would be unwilling or incapable of performing. For example, it
took a syndicate of motor vehicle makers and aircraft companies to produce
Americas warplanes of World War II. In the negative sense it is used to denote
organized crime.
v
To organize into a syndicate
or to sell shares in.
syndicate
Usage Examples
Object
- smith: Would just pull nestled into an students suggesting that liz smith syndicated.
- news: The news syndicated via the google and yahoo news services.
Converse of object
- bet: The meeting actually never took place but was a phantom fixture organized by a betting syndicate.
- organize: Russia has become an ideal haven form money laundering by the world's organized crime syndicates.
- shoot: In one year shooting in Cheshire planted 6770 meters of new hedges, 3950 meters of which were funded solely by shooting syndicates.
- join: How to maximize your chances of winning by joining a British online lottery syndicate.
Adjective modifier
- organized: They're nothing more than legislators who embrace the same organized crime syndicate.
- criminal: Mexico has strict if poorly enforced gun laws and strong criminal syndicates.
- Italian: Monkey Says: Nasty Italian syndicate threatens to reclaim land on Chinese restaurant site in Rome.
Modifies a noun
- room: These meeting rooms are backed up with 6 syndicate rooms with seating up to 10 persons in each.
- lake: This will give anglers the chance to Pike Fish this exclusive syndicate lake.
- exercise: Course Style: Interactive with presentations supported by syndicate exercises.
Modifying Another Word
- nationally: Once syndicated nationally, they can multiply with surprising ease.
Noun used with modifier
- underwriting: We also provide a Damage Survey service for both UK and non UK Insurers and Underwriting Syndicates.
- lottery: How to maximize your chances of winning by joining a British online lottery syndicate.
- crime: The police are riddled with corrupt officers in their own ranks, many of whom are paid directly by crime syndicates.
- gambling: Email this A gambling syndicate has pulled off a £ 25,000 betting sting on the Bingo Caller of the Year competition.
- racing: Indeed, some racing syndicates - or clubs - boast hundreds of members.
- dream: This is Dream Syndicate going through a recurring nightmare.
Preposition: of
- investor: Investor clubs may be run by existing practitioners or, alternatively may be set up by syndicates of private investors.
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