1.  syndicate(n = noun.group) crime syndicate, family, mob - a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities; Array
is a kind of gangdom, gangland, organized crime
has particulars: cosa nostra, maffia, mafia

2.  syndicate(n = noun.group) consortium, pool - an association of companies for some definite purpose; Array
is a kind of association
has particulars: cartel, combine, corporate trust, trust
Derived forms verb syndicate₂, verb syndicate₁

3.  syndicate(n = noun.group) Array - a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication; Array
is a kind of news agency, news organisation, news organization, press agency, press association, wire service
Derived form verb syndicate₃

1.  syndicate(v = verb.social) Array - join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated"
is one way to connect, join, link, link up, unite
Derived form noun syndicate₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

2.  syndicate(v = verb.social) Array - organize into or form a syndicate; Array
is one way to form, organise, organize
Derived forms noun syndicate₂, noun syndication₁, noun syndicator₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

3.  syndicate(v = verb.possession) Array - sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations; Array
is one way to sell
Derived forms noun syndicate₃, noun syndication₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.  A more or less organized association of criminals controlling some aspects of criminal activity, in a specific area or country-wide; -- used loosely as a synonym for organized crime or the mafia. [PJC]

4.  a commercial organization that purchases various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resells them to newspapers or other periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area. [PJC]

   To judge; to censure. [1913 Webster]

1.  To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.  To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3.  to purchase various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resell them to numerous periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area; a syndicated columnist. [PJC]

   To unite to form a syndicate. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

syndicate, n. & v.
--n.
1 a combination of individuals or commercial firms to promote some common interest.
2 an association or agency supplying material simultaneously to a number of newspapers or periodicals.
3 a group of people who combine to buy or rent property, gamble, organize crime, etc.
4 a committee of syndics.
--v.tr.
1 form into a syndicate.
2 publish (material) through a syndicate.

Derivative:
syndication n.

Etymology:
F syndicat f. med.L syndicatus f. LL syndicus: see SYNDIC

N  council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.

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crime syndicate