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SYNDIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does syndic mean?
• SYNDIC (noun)
The noun SYNDIC has 1 sense:
1. one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
Familiarity information: SYNDIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("syndic" is a kind of...):
agent; broker; factor (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)
Context examples
My papa is a syndic—he is M. Frankenstein—he will punish you.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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