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English Dictionary: syndicate	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for syndicate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
syndicate n a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities Synonym(s): syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family an association of companies for some definite purpose Synonym(s): consortium, pool, syndicate a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication v join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated" organize into or form a syndicate sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-cated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-cating}.] 1. To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate. 2. To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. i. To unite to form a syndicate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syndicate \Syn"dicate\, n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.] 1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. --Bp. Burnet. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of syndicare to censure.] To judge; to censure. [Obs.]