syndicator

syn·di·cate  (snd-kt)

n.

1. An association of people or firms authorized to undertake a duty or transact specific business.

2. An association of people or firms formed to engage in an enterprise or promote a common interest.

3. A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities.

4. An agency that sells articles, features, or photographs for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously.

5. A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain.

6. The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics.

v. (-kt) 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 shares in.

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.

v.intr.

To join together in a syndicate.

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[French syndicat, from Old French, office of syndic, from Medieval Latin syndictus, from Late Latin syndicus, syndic; see syndic.]

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syndi·cation n.

syndi·cator n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

syndicator - a businessman who forms a syndicate businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)