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Entry 9 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Syndicate

/sĭn'-dĭk-ət/ · Syn·di·cate · IPA /ˈsɪndɪkət/
01 n. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
  1. 1.
    The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. Also: organized crime, mafia
  4. 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.(Journalism)
02 v. t. To judge; to censure.
  1. 1.
    To judge; to censure.[Obs.]
03 v. t. To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
imp. & p. p. syndicated; p. pr. & vb. n. syndicating
  1. 1.
    To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
  2. 2.
    To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.
  3. 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.(Journalism)
04 v. i. To unite to form a syndicate.
  1. 1.
    To unite to form a syndicate.