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Webster 1913 Edition


Syndicate

Syn′di-cate

,
Noun.
[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
.

Syn′di-cate

,
Verb.
T.
[LL.
syndicatus
, p. p. of
syndicare
to censure.]
To judge; to censure.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Syndicate

SYN'DICATE

,
Noun.
In some countries on the European continent, a council; a branch of government.

SYN'DICATE

,
Verb.
T.
To judge, or to censure.

Definition 2024


syndicate

syndicate

English

Noun

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.
  4. 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

  • (roughly) business partners

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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.

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