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
4. join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated"
5. organize into or form a syndicate
6. sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

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.

Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. i. To unite to form a syndicate.

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.

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A Syndicate is a self-organising group of individuals, companies or criminals formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest or in the case of criminals, to engage in organized crime.

The word syndicate comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union (syndic meaning administrator), from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος (syndikos) which means caretaker of an issue, compare to ombudsman or representative.

Crime syndicates are criminal organizations 'running common illegal big businesses'.

In media, syndicates are organizations by name and credit.

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