a group of individuals or organizations combined to promote some common interest 辛迪加;企业联合 large-scale buyouts involving a syndicate of financial institutions. 金融机构组成的财团参与了的大规模收购活动。 a crime syndicate. 犯罪集团。 ■an association or agency supplying material simultaneously to a number of newspapers or periodicals 报刊辛迪加 ■a committee of syndics 私人联合会
verb
[with obj.](常作 be syndicated)control or manage by a syndicate 通过辛迪加控制(或管理) the loans are syndicated to a group of banks. 贷款由组成辛迪加的一批银行统一办理。 ■publish or broadcast (material) simultaneously in a number of newspapers, television stations, etc 通过稿件辛迪加在多家报刊(或电视台等)同时发表(或广播) her cartoon strip is syndicated in 1,400 newspapers worldwide. 她的卡通漫画通过稿件辛迪加在全世界1,400家报纸上同时刊发。 ■sell (a horse) to a syndicate 把(赛马)卖给辛迪加 the stallion was syndicated for a record $5.4 million. 这匹牡马以540万的创历史新高价卖给了辛迪加。
派生 syndication noun 语源
early 17th cent. (denoting a committee of syndics): from French syndicat, from medieval Latin syndicatus, from late Latin syndicus 'delegate of a corporation' (see syndic). Current verb senses date from the late 19th cent