syndicate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.

   “a gambling syndicate”

2. isim A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.

   “Held at the estate of Mafia boss Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, NY, the meeting called by [Vito] Genovese in November 1957 brought over 100 mobsters from around the country to cement his power over the national crime syndicate.”

3. isim A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.

   “In the mid-1880s, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt broke into print inauspiciously as one member of the stable of writers who supplied humorous sketches and mildly sentimental or didactic squibs for S[amuel] S[idney] McClure's newspaper syndicate.”

4. isim The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.

   “The executive government of the University [of Madras] shall be vested in a syndicate, consisting of the Vice-Chancellor and six of the fellows, who shall be elected for one year by the several faculties, at the annual meetng of the senate, […]”

5. fiil To become a syndicate.

   “[H]e [John Guthrie McCallum] went to Los Angeles and set up a law practice. There, with three partners and a capitalization of $100,000, they syndicated under the name Palm Valley Land and Water Company in 1887.”

6. fiil To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
7. fiil To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.