n. 企业联合, 辛迪加, 财团

vt. 联合成辛迪加

vi. 联合成辛迪加

[经] 辛迪加, 公司, 财团

Syndicate \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.

3. 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]

4. (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.
[PJC]


Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. i.
To unite to form a syndicate.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]


Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of
syndicare to censure.]
To judge; to censure. [Obs.]


Syndicate \Syn"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {syndicated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {syndicating}.]
1. To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the
management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. (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.
[PJC]

organized crime \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}.
[PJC]