Syndicate

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  organized crime \organized crime\ n.
     Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes, such as
     bootlegging, conducting illegal gambling, loansharking,
     extortion, etc.; -- a general term encompassing most forms of
     criminal groups, but especially those that are consolidated
     into "families" more or less recognizing each other's


     different regions of operation; sometimes considered
     synonymous with the {mafia} or the {syndicate}.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. i.
     To unite to form a syndicate.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of
     syndicare to censure.]
     To judge; to censure. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {syndicated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {syndicating}.]
     1. To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the
        management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     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.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]
     1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body
        of syndics. --Bp. Burnet.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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}.
        [PJC]
  
     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.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syndicate
       n 1: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
            criminal activities [syn: {crime syndicate}, {mob}, {family}]
       2: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn:
          {consortium}, {pool}]
       3: a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs
          etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
       v 1: join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated"
       2: organize into or form a syndicate
       3: sell articles, television programs, or photos to several
          publications or independent broadcasting stations

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "syndicate":
     Aktiengesellschaft, Black Hand, British Cabinet, Cosa Nostra,
     Mafia, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, add, advisory body, affiliate,
     aktiebolag, ally, amalgamate, assembly, assimilate, associate,
     association, bench, black market, blend, bloc, board,
     body corporate, body of advisers, bootlegging, borough council,
     brain trust, business, business establishment, cabinet, camarilla,
     cartel, chain, chamber, chamber of commerce, city council,
     coalesce, combine, come together, commercial enterprise,
     common council, compagnie, company, compound, comprise, concern,
     confederate, conference, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation,
     congress, connect, consolidate, consolidating company, consortium,
     consultative assembly, copartnership, corporate body, corporation,
     council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state,
     council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet,
     directory, distribute, divan, diversified corporation, embody,
     encompass, enterprise, firm, flux, fuse, gambling, gangdom,
     gangland, gray market, group, holding company, house,
     illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business,
     illicit business, include, incorporate, industry, integrate,
     interblend, interfuse, join, joint-stock association,
     joint-stock company, junta, kitchen cabinet, league, legislature,
     loan-sharking, lump together, mafia, make one, meld, melt into one,
     merge, mix, monopoly, moonshining, narcotics traffic,
     operating company, organization, organized crime, parish council,
     partnership, plunderbund, pool, privy council, prostitution,
     protection racket, public utility, put together, racket, reembody,
     roll into one, serialize, shade into, shady dealings, solidify,
     soviet, staff, stock company, syncretize, syndication, synod,
     synthesize, the Mafia, the mob, the rackets, the syndicate,
     the underworld, trade association, traffic in women, tribunal,
     trust, unify, union, unite, usury, utility, white slavery