syndicate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Anglicized from French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”) on the basis of -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group formed of people of this same office), equivalent to syndic (“syndic; representative; (especially) chief magistrate of Geneva”) + -at (“-ate”, forms nouns denoting rank or office), from Medieval Latin *syndicātus, from syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town; syndic”) (from Ancient Greek σύνδικος (súndikos, “advocate for a defendant”), from σύν (sún, “beside; with”) + δίκη (díkē, “judgment; justice”)) + -ātus (“-ate”). By surface analysis, syndic + -ate.
Compare Italian sindacato (“syndicate; trade union; audit, control, supervision”), Occitan sendegat, Portuguese sindicato (“trade union”), Spanish sindicado, sindicato (“office of a syndic; syndicate; trade union”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: syndicates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: syndicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: syndicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: syndicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: syndicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
pos: noun
examples: a gambling syndicate
The worst deed ever alleged against the early sandalwood traders was that a number of natives were suffocated in a cave at Vaté, in the New Hebrides, by the smoke from a fire built at its mouth. But this was done by order of Maafu, who, on behalf of an Australian syndicate of highly-respectable merchants and church-members, was "bossing" an expedition in search of sandalwood through the New Hebrides.
gloss: A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
pos: noun
examples: Held at the estate of Mafia boss Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, NY, the meeting called by [Vito] Genovese in November 1957 brought over 100 mobsters from around the country to cement his power over the national crime syndicate.
gloss: A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
pos: noun
examples: In the mid-1880s, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt broke into print inauspiciously as one member of the stable of writers who supplied humorous sketches and mildly sentimental or didactic squibs for S[amuel] S[idney] McClure's newspaper syndicate.
gloss: The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
pos: noun
examples: The ſoveraintie lies in the Council of 200, and this Council chuſes out of its number 25, who are the leſſer Council; […] they are choſen by a ſort of ballet, ſo that it is not known for whom they give their votes, which is an effectual method to ſuppreſs factions and reſentments; ſince in a competition no man can know who voted for him or againſt him: yet the election is not ſo carried, but that the whole Town is in an intrigue concerning it: for ſince the being of the little Council leads one to the Sindicat, which is the chieffe honor of the State: this dignitie is courted here, with as active and ſolicitous an ambition as appears elſewhere for greater matters.
The executive government of the University [of Madras] shall be vested in a syndicate, consisting of the Vice-Chancellor and six of the fellows, who shall be elected for one year by the several faculties, at the annual meetng of the senate, […]
gloss: To become a syndicate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [H]e [John Guthrie McCallum] went to Los Angeles and set up a law practice. There, with three partners and a capitalization of $100,000, they syndicated under the name Palm Valley Land and Water Company in 1887.
gloss: To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When a potential transaction has been identified by a bank, the first activity is obtaining from the potential borrower a "mandate," which is the customer's exclusive authorization to a bank to act as the syndication manager for that particular transaction and to approach other financial institutions on its behalf to raise a given amount of funds. […] A mandate letter is very similar to a standard bank commitment letter, with the exception that bank managers do not guarantee to provide the credit facility, but rather only to syndicate it on a "best efforts" basis, perhaps with a certain firm commitment assumed by them representing a portion of the required syndicated financing.
gloss: To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [I]nternational television format exchanges are providing a customizable alternative to syndicating existing TV series in foreign markets. Sixteen countries around the world have adapted So You Think You Can Dance, a reality dance competition that originated in the United States. Format changes range from using local judges and contestants to incorporating local dance styles into the competition.
With the success of The Oprah Winfrey Show and the national attention that Oprah [Winfrey] received from The Color Purple, [Jeffrey] Jacobs advised her that it was time to syndicate her show. Jacobs worked out a deal with the syndication company King World to distribute the show nationally. Two brothers, Roger and Michael King, ran King World. They syndicated the game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! and were looking for a new show to add to their list.
Related words: syndicated
syndication
syndicator
Derived words: antisyndicate
nonsyndicate
resyndicate
subsyndicate
syndicateer
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sindikaat
lang: Arabic
word: نِقابة
roman: niqāba
lang: Arabic
word: نَقابة
roman: naqāba
lang: Belarusian
word: сіндыка́т
roman: sindykát
lang: Belarusian
word: сындыка́т
roman: syndykát
lang: Bulgarian
word: синдика́т
roman: sindikát
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辛迪加
roman: xīndíjiā
lang: Czech
word: syndikát
lang: Danish
word: syndikat
lang: Estonian
word: sündikaat
lang: Finnish
word: syndikaatti
lang: Finnish
word: ryhmittymä
lang: French
word: syndicat
lang: Galician
word: sindicato
lang: Georgian
word: სინდიკატი
roman: sindiḳaṭi
lang: German
word: Syndikat
lang: Greek
word: συνδικάτο
roman: syndikáto
lang: Hungarian
word: szindikátus
lang: Irish
word: sindeacáit
lang: Italian
word: sindacato industriale
lang: Italian
word: associazione di imprese
lang: Italian
word: consorzio di garanzia e collocamento
lang: Japanese
word: 企業組合
roman: kigyōkumiai
lang: Japanese
word: シンジケート
roman: shinjikēto
lang: Korean
word: 신디케이트
roman: sindikeiteu
lang: Macedonian
word: синдика́т
roman: sindikát
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: syndikat
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: syndikat
lang: Polish
word: syndykat
lang: Russian
word: синдика́т
roman: sindikát
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: синдѝка̄т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sindìkāt
lang: Sicilian
word: sinnicatu
lang: Sicilian
word: sinnacatu
lang: Slovak
word: syndikát
lang: Slovene
word: sindikat
lang: Swedish
word: bolag
lang: Ukrainian
word: синдика́т
roman: syndykát