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Syndicate   /sˈɪndɪkət/  /sˈɪndəkˌeɪt/   Listen
Syndicate

noun
1.
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.  Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob.
2.
An association of companies for some definite purpose.  Synonyms: consortium, pool.
3.
A news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication.
verb
(past & past part. syndicated; pres. part. syndicating)
1.
Join together into a syndicate.
2.
Organize into or form a syndicate.
3.
Sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations.



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"Syndicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... simply followed the spirit of the age. He could not succeed alone, and therefore he proceeded to form a syndicate to compel Dora to love him, or in the meantime ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
... accompanied the remains to the burial-ground, where the English service was performed by the Rev. Mr. John Magers of Queen's College, and the Rev. Mr. Burgess. The members of the Academy, in the absence of any relation of the deceased, took their place in the funeral procession; and the invitations to the syndicate, and to the learned bodies who accompanied it, were made by that body in the same character. The whole was conducted with much appropriate order and decency, and whilst every attention and respect were paid to the memory ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction--Volume 13 - Index to Vol. 13 • Various
... Wintermuth returned, "I suppose they'll assess their stockholders. That man Murch will probably get up an underwriting syndicate to ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... listened attentively, but he could only make out words like "trust," "monopoly," "fall in prices," "receipts," mixed up with phrases like "the dignity of art," and the "rights of the author." And at last he saw that they were talking business. A certain number of authors, it appeared, belonged to a syndicate and were angry about certain attempts which had been made to float a rival concern, which, according to them, would dispute their monopoly of exploitation. The defection of certain of their members who had found it to their advantage to go over bag and baggage ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... on whom the wild dissipation of the night life of New York was just beginning to show its effects. The name of Warrington, too, recalled to Constance instantly some gossip she had heard in Wall Street about the disagreement in the board of directors of the new Rubber Syndicate and the effort to oust the president whose escapades were something more than mere whispers ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve


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