GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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Found 5 definitions

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   organized crime n. Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes, such as bootlegging, conducting illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, etc.; -- a general term encompassing most forms of criminal groups, but especially those that are consolidated into “families” more or less recognizing each other's different regions of operation; sometimes considered synonymous with the mafia or the syndicate.
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   Syndicate , n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]
    The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
   Bp. Burnet.
   
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   PJC
   (Journalism) 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.
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   Syndicate , v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of syndicare to censure.] To judge; to censure. [Obs.]
   1913 Webster
         
       

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   Syndicate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. syndicated ; p. pr. & vb. n. syndicating .]
    To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
   Webster 1913 Suppl.
   To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.
   Webster 1913 Suppl.
   (Journalism) 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.
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   Syndicate, v. i. To unite to form a syndicate.
   Webster 1913 Suppl.