Definitions for syndicate

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syndicate syn·di·cate

Spelling: [noun sin-di-kit; verb sin-di-keyt]

IPA: /noun ˈsɪn dɪ kɪt; verb ˈsɪn dɪˌkeɪt/

Syndicate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 660 anagrams from letters in syndicate (acdeinsty).

Definitions for syndicate

noun

1. a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations:
2. a combination of bankers or capitalists formed for the purpose of carrying out some project requiring large resources of capital, as the underwriting of an issue of stock or bonds.
3. Journalism. an agency that buys articles, stories, columns, photographs, comic strips, or other features and distributes them for simultaneous publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals in different localities. Compare boilerplate (def 2a). a business organization owning and operating a number of newspapers; newspaper chain.
4. a group, combination, or association of gangsters controlling organized crime or one type of crime, especially in one region of the country.
5. a council or body of syndics.
6. a local organization of employers or employees in Italy during the Fascist regime.

verb (used with object)

1. to combine into a syndicate.
2. to publish simultaneously, or supply for simultaneous publication, in a number of newspapers or other periodicals in different places:
3. Television. to sell (a program, series, etc.) directly to independent stations.
4. to sell shares in or offer participation in the financial sharing of (a risk venture, loan, or the like):

verb (used without object)

1. to combine to form a syndicate.

Origin of syndicate

1600-10; Middle French syndicat office of syndic, board of syndics Medieval Latin syndicātus. See syndic, -ate

Examples for syndicate

The name selected by the syndicate for their new building was "The Globe."

Seventeen months later, a recently awoken Kennex is obsessed with figuring out how The syndicate planned the ambush.

It's this syndicate business that your father has got mixed up in.

His mind was at rest about the syndicate report now that it had been mailed to London.

It's all done on behalf of a syndicate, in which "everybody has a share."

Newsmax pays to syndicate their columns, and their stature lends the site credibility.

We have smelters; they are closed at the order of a syndicate in this city.

When this syndicate was organized, or who constituted its members, we cannot say.

Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah syndicate still wielded the political power.

Bradlee explained that, “We do not censor comics, and I have passed your letter on to Mr. Johnson in care of the syndicate.”