Hypertext Webster Gateway: "syndicate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-cated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {-cating}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. i.
To unite to form a syndicate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of
syndicare to censure.]
To judge; to censure. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
syndicate
n 1: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
criminal activities [syn: {mob}]
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: form a syndicate
2: sell articles or photos to several publications
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