say it: SIN-di-kuht
syndicate is a noun and verb meaning "a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
an association of companies for some definite purpose
a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for syndicate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.