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/sˈɪndɪkət/ /sˈɪndəkˌeɪt/ Listen

noun

Syndicate n.

1.

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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.

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.

4.

(Journalism) 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.

verb

Syndicate v. t. To judge; to censure. (Obs.)

Syndicate v. t. (past & past part. syndicated; pres. part. syndicating)

1.

To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.

2.

To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.

3.

(Journalism) 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.

Syndicate v. i. To unite to form a syndicate.

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"Syndicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... SELWYN,—You will be pleased to know that I have succeeded in placing your articles "When Hell Laughed," "A Fool There Was," and "Gods of Jingoism" with a prominent newspaper syndicate. The price paid was $800 each, and I herewith remit my cheque for $2160, having deducted the usual commission. I have every reason to believe that any further articles you send will meet with a ready market, especially if they follow along the same lines of exposing the utter ...

— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... the first volume of this series, entitled "Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle," the lad had passed through some strenuous adventures. A syndicate of rich men, disappointed in a turbine motor they had acquired from a certain inventor, hired a gang of scoundrels to get possession of a turbine Mr. Swift had invented. Just before they made the attempt, however, Tom became possessed of a motor-cycle. It had belonged to a wealthy man, Mr. Wakefield ...

— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton

... Plains—not to mention, as quite hopeless, The History of Samoa—this should be rather a profitable year, as it must be owned it has been rather a busy one. The trouble is, if I miss the December publication, it may take the devil and all of a time to start another syndicate. I am really tempted to curse my conscientiousness. If I hadn't recopied Davie he would now be done and dead and buried; and here I am stuck about the middle, with an immediate publication threatened and the fear before me of having after all to scamp the essential business of the ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... film syndicate have overcome their difficulty in finding a man to take the place of CHARLIE CHAPLIN. They have decided ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 7, 1917. • Various

... was completed by the final consolidation of the entire capital of the nation. The industry and commerce of the country, ceasing to be conducted by a set of irresponsible corporations and syndicates of private persons at their caprice and for their profit, were entrusted to a single syndicate representing the people, to be conducted for the common profit. That is to say, the nation organised itself as one great business corporation in which all other corporations were absorbed. It became the one capitalist, the sole employer, the final monopoly, in the profits and economies ...

— The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics • Various

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