syndicate

noun
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkət/
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkət/
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  1. a group of people or companies who work together and help each other in order to achieve a particular aim辛迪加;企业联合组织;财团;私人联合会
    • a crime syndicate犯罪集团
    • an insurance/investment syndicate保险/投资集团
    Topics Businessc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • crime
    • criminal
    • drug
    verb + syndicate
    • form
    • run
    • join
    preposition
    • in a/​the syndicate
    phrases
    • a member of a syndicate
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a committee of government officials): from French syndicat, from medieval Latin syndicatus, from late Latin syndicus ‘delegate of a corporation’, from Greek sundikos, from sun- ‘together’ + dikē ‘justice’. Current verb senses date from the late 19th cent.

syndicate

verb
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪt/
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪt/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they syndicate
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🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪt/
he / she / it syndicates
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪts/
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past simple syndicated
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪtɪd/
past participle syndicated
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-ing form syndicating
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈsɪndɪkeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. to sell an article, a photograph, a television programme, etc. to several different newspapers, etc.把(文章、图片、电视节目等)出售给多个媒体
    • be syndicated His column is syndicated throughout the world.他的专栏文章在世界各地的报刊发表。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySyndicate is used with these nouns as the object:
    • column
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a committee of government officials): from French syndicat, from medieval Latin syndicatus, from late Latin syndicus ‘delegate of a corporation’, from Greek sundikos, from sun- ‘together’ + dikē ‘justice’. Current verb senses date from the late 19th cent.