syndicate

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Merriman several weeks before -- that the secret of the syndicate was the essential feature of the case.

View all »
Definitions (26)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (11)

  1. noun An association of people or firms authorized to undertake a duty or transact specific business.
  2. noun An association of people or firms formed to engage in an enterprise or promote a common interest.
  3. noun A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities.
8 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (4)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (6)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Meanwhile, stocks in the hands of the syndicate were accumulating rapidly with no visible outlet for reducing them A feature in the trade which alone should have been sufficient to prevent men of brains from going into such an operation was that the production could not be contracted for in advance. —  The Romance and Tragedy
  • The other member of the syndicate was the master who took PE and games. —  No Winding Sheet-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 65
  • This syndicate was allegedly able to process six to seven passports everyday and has operated since the six past month s with an income of about 10,000 ringgit per month, Sulaiman Keling said. —  The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • The stamps confiscated from the syndicate are those often used in Klang port of Selangor, —  The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • "The details given by the syndicate was so accurate that the family was fooled into believing that their daughter was really kidnapped," Ku said.
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 72 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

cartel ·  consortium ·  corporation ·  tycoon ·  magnate ·  banker ·  gang ·  fraternity

Used in the same contextWord Family

syndicate:   syndicates ·  syndicating ·  syndicated
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (4)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French syndicat, from Old French, office of syndic, from Medieval Latin syndicātus, from Late Latin syndicus, syndic; see syndic.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (3)

  1. from Middle Latin syndicatus, past participle of syndicare (later Old French syndiquer), examine, investigate, censure, from Late Latin syndicus, a public officer, a syndic: see syndic.
  2. = French syndicat = Spanish sindicado = Italian sindicato, from Middle Latin syndicatus, a syndicate, an examination of public morals, from Late Latin syndicus, a syndic: see syndic and -ate.
  3. from syndicate, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈsɪndɪkeɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a month.

Recently looked up

optician · syndicate · gamma · fact · CIMA

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich