SYNDICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syndicate mean? 

• SYNDICATE (noun)
  The noun SYNDICATE has 3 senses:

1. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

2. an association of companies for some definite purpose

3. a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication

  Familiarity information: SYNDICATE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SYNDICATE (verb)
  The verb SYNDICATE has 3 senses:

1. join together into a syndicate

2. organize into or form a syndicate

3. sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

  Familiarity information: SYNDICATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNDICATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

crime syndicate; family; mob; syndicate

Hypernyms ("syndicate" is a kind of...):

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syndicate"):

Cosa Nostra; Maffia; Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An association of companies for some definite purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

consortium; pool; syndicate

Hypernyms ("syndicate" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syndicate"):

cartel; combine; corporate trust; trust (a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service)

Derivation:

syndicate (organize into or form a syndicate)

syndicate (join together into a syndicate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("syndicate" is a kind of...):

news agency; news organisation; news organization; press agency; press association; wire service (an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically)

Derivation:

syndicate (sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations)

• SYNDICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they syndicate    ... he / she / it syndicates   
Past simple: syndicated   
Past participle: syndicated   
-ing form: syndicating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Join together into a syndicate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The banks syndicated

Hypernyms (to "syndicate" is one way to...):

connect; join; link; link up; unite (be or become joined or united or linked)

Verb group:

syndicate (organize into or form a syndicate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

syndicate (an association of companies for some definite purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Organize into or form a syndicate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "syndicate" is one way to...):

form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))

Verb group:

syndicate (join together into a syndicate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

syndicate (an association of companies for some definite purpose)

syndication (organizing into or administering as a syndicate)

syndicator (a businessman who forms a syndicate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "syndicate" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

syndicate (a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication)

syndication (selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time)

 Context examples 

For several weeks he had been worried by a strange silence on the part of the newspaper storiette syndicate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then these are your instructions, and I beg, my dear Watson, that you will obey them to the letter, for you are now playing a double-handed game with me against the cleverest rogue and the most powerful syndicate of criminals in Europe.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Toward the last the syndicate had been paying him five dollars each for them and accepting every one he sent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Stored away under his table were the twenty storiettes which had been rejected by the newspaper short- story syndicate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then there are the newspaper syndicates, and the newspaper short-story syndicates, and the syndicates for the Sunday supplements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Managing to obtain the addresses of two newspaper syndicates, he deluged them with storiettes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were accompanied by a brief letter to the effect that the syndicate was overstocked, and that some months would elapse before it would be in the market again for manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)