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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



... capacity for bluff. He has lived and risked and lost in a dozen countries, been almost within reach of fortune a dozen times, and always missed her until, finally, in London, by promoting a great rubber syndicate he becomes a multi-millionaire. He marries the most beautiful and one of the most impecunious peeresses in England and retires to his country estate. There, as a gentleman of leisure, he loses his motive in life, loses power for lack of opportunity, and grows less ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... day, though disagreeing on almost every other question, were agreed that this danger must be fought as a common enemy. Though the Four-Power group alleged that they held the first option on all Chinese loans, money had already been advanced by a Franco-Belgian Syndicate to the amount of nearly two million pounds during the critical days of the Abdication. Furious at the prospect of losing their percentages, the Four Power group made the confusion worse confounded by blocking all competing proposals and closing every possible door. ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale
... you to go to Washington immediately, Mr. Burnett. Return by the night train. You can do without your grip? Take these papers to Buckston Higgins—you see the address—who represents the British Argentine syndicate. Wait till he reads them and get his reply. Here is the money for the trip. Oh, after Mr. Higgins writes his answer, ask him if you can telegraph me 'yes' ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... 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 ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
... society and, with or without the legislator's permission, we find it to be a private syndicate,[4109] analogous to many others.[4110] Whether communal or departmental, it concerns, combines, and serves none but the inhabitants of one circumscription; its success or failure does not interest the nation, ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine


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