Syndicate

English Meaning

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

1. An association of people or firms authorized to undertake a duty or transact specific business.
2. An association of people or firms formed to engage in an enterprise or promote a common interest.
3. A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities.
4. An agency that sells articles, features, or photographs for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously.
5. A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain.
6. The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics.
7. To organize into or manage as a syndicate.
8. To sell shares in.
9. To sell (a comic strip or column, for example) through a syndicate for simultaneous publication in newspapers or periodicals.
10. To sell (a television series, for example) directly to independent stations.
11. To join together in a syndicate.