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1. A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business or to promote a common interest
   - consortium, pool
    
2. A news agency that sells features, articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
    
3. A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
   - crime syndicate, mob, family

1. Join together into a syndicate
   "The banks syndicated"
    
2. Organize into or form a syndicate
    
3. Sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

Derived forms: syndicated, syndicates, syndicating

Type of: association, connect, flog [Brit, informal], form, gangdom, gangland, join, link, link up, news agency, news organisation [Brit], news organization, organise [Brit], organised crime [Brit], organize, organized crime, press agency, press association, sell, unite, wire service

Encyclopedia: Syndicate, Indiana