n. | 1. | The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. |
| 2. | An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds. |
| 3. | A more or less organized association of criminals controlling some aspects of criminal activity, in a specific area or country-wide; - used loosely as a synonym for organized crime or the mafia. |
| 4. | (Journalism) a commercial organization that purchases various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resells them to newspapers or other periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area. |
v. t. | 1. | To judge; to censure. |
| 1. | To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate. |
| 2. | To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers. |
| 3. | (Journalism) to purchase various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resell them to numerous periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area; a syndicated columnist. |
v. i. | 1. | To unite to form a syndicate. |