syndicate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a group of people or organizations that combine resources to carry out a business, project, or shared purpose

   A syndicate of banks agreed to finance the railway project.

2. 2
   noun

   an organization that supplies articles, photographs, or other material to multiple publishers

   The syndicate distributes her weekly column to newspapers across the country.

3. 3
   noun

   an organized group engaged in criminal activity

   Investigators traced the smuggling operation to an international crime syndicate.

4. 4
   verb

   to sell or distribute media content for publication or broadcast in several outlets

   The company plans to syndicate the documentary to regional television stations.

Common collocations

• crime syndicate Noun + noun

From French syndicat, 'office or body of syndics,' from syndic, 'representative of a corporation.' Syndic ultimately comes through Late Latin syndicus from Greek syndikos, 'advocate,' formed from syn-, 'together,' and dike, 'justice or judgment.'

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