Syn"di*cate (?), n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]
1.
The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet.
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.
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Syn"di*cate (?), v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of syndicare to censure.]
To judge; to censure. [Obs.]
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Syn"di*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. -cated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. -cating (?).]
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.
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Syn"di*cate, v. i.
To unite to form a syndicate.
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