Syndicate /(?)/

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. 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. (Journalism)

1. To judge; to censure. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. syndicated; p. pr. & vb. n. syndicating

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. 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. (Journalism)

1. To unite to form a syndicate.