An association of people or firms formed to promote a common interest or carry out a business enterprise, A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain, The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics, intransitive verb_ To organize into or manage as a syndicate, To sell (a comic strip or column, for example) through a syndicate for simultaneous publication in newspapers or periodicals, To unite to form a syndicate, transitive verb_ To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate, To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate, To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate, verb_ organize into or form a syndicate, sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations, join together into a syndicate