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.

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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