a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations

The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.

a combination of bankers or capitalists formed for the purpose of carrying out some project requiring large resources of capital, as the underwriting of an issue of stock or bonds.

Journalism .

an agency that buys articles, stories, columns, photographs, comic strips, or other features and distributes them for simultaneous publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals in different localities. Compare boiler plate ( def. 2a ) .

a business organization owning and operating a number of newspapers; newspaper chain.

a group, combination, or association of gangsters controlling organized crime or one type of crime, esp. in one region of the country.

a council or body of syndics.

a local organization of employers or employees in Italy during the Fascist regime.

to combine into a syndicate.

to publish simultaneously, or supply for simultaneous publication, in a number of newspapers or other periodicals in different places

Her column is syndicated in 120 papers.

Television . to sell (a program, series, etc.) directly to independent stations.

to sell shares in or offer participation in the financial sharing of (a risk venture, loan, or the like)

to syndicate a racehorse among speculators; to syndicate a loan among several banks.

to combine to form a syndicate.

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