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n. 1. An association of people or firms formed to promote a common interest or carry out a business enterprise. 2. A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities. 3. An agency that sells articles, features, or photographs for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously. 4. A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain. 5. The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics. v. (-kāt′) syn·di·cat·ed, syn·di·cat·ing, syn·di·cates v.tr. 1. a. To organize into or manage as a syndicate. b. To sell (a horse) to a syndicate. 2. To sell (a comic strip or column, for example) through a syndicate for simultaneous publication in newspapers or periodicals. 3. To sell (a television series, for example) directly to independent stations. 4. a. To create a feed for (a website), allowing users to include content from the website in other websites or to view the content. b. To include (the contents of a website) on another website by using a feed. v.intr. To join together in a syndicate. [French syndicat, from Old French, office of syndic, from Medieval Latin syndicātus, from Late Latin syndicus, syndic; see SYNDIC.] syn′di·cation n. syndi·ca′tor n. |
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