syndicate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
    mob; family; crime syndicate.
  2. noun an association of companies for some definite purpose
    consortium; pool.
  3. noun a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
  4. verb join together into a syndicate
    • The banks syndicated
  5. verb organize into or form a syndicate
  6. verb sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

WordNet

Syn"di*cate noun
Etymology
Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.
Definitions
  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.
Syn"di*cate transitive verb
Etymology
LL. syndicatus, p.p. of syndicare to censure.
Definitions
  1. To judge; to censure. Obs.

Webster 1913