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noun
A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: crime
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noun
A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: mass media
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noun
The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
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verb
To become a syndicate.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.
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Usage: transitive
Qualifier: mass media
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noun
an association of companies for some definite purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: consortium, pool
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Broader terms: association
Narrower terms: trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel
noun
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, family
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Broader terms: organized crime, gangland, gangdom
Narrower terms: Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra
noun
a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: news agency, press agency, wire service, press association, news organization, news organisation
verb
sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sell
verb
organize into or form a syndicate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: form, organize, organise
verb
join together into a syndicate
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Broader terms: connect, link, link up, join, unite
History
Anglicized from French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”) on the basis of -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group formed of people of this same office), equivalent to syndic (“syndic; representative; (especially) chief magistrate of Geneva”) + -at (“-ate”, forms nouns denoting rank or office), from Medieval Latin *syndicātus, from syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town; syndic”) (from Ancient Greek σύνδικος (súndikos, “advocate for a defendant”), from σύν (sún, “beside; with”) + δίκη (díkē, “judgment; justice”)) + -ātus (“-ate”). By surface analysis, syndic + -ate. Compare Italian sindacato (“syndicate; trade union; audit, control, supervision”), Occitan sendegat, Portuguese sindicato (“trade union”), Spanish sindicado, sindicato (“office of a syndic; syndicate; trade union”).
From the noun or French syndiquer, either on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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