syndicate2 (sindikat)

[F. syndic at = Sp. sindicado = It. sindicato, The management of the University Pre is committed to a syndicate consisting of the Vice-Chancellor and fif teen other members of the Senate elected by Grace, three of whom retire by rotation every year. Cambridge University Calendar , 1889, p. 465. 2. An a ociation of persons or corporations formed with the view of promoting some particular enterprise, discharging some trust, or the like; a combination. The movement of a small company or syndicate will not bring profits to the originators. Contemporary Rev., L. 85. In the panic of 1866 the price of the shares in banks was artificially raised by the unscrupulous cliques or syndicates, the funds for the purpose being in some cases supplied by the directors themselves. Nineteenth Century , XXVI. 852. These syndicates were originally combinations paper publishers for the phase and nations of news lication in different parts of the country of stories written by the most popular authors. Westminster Rev., CXXVIII. 859. syndicate2 (sin'di-kāt), v. [ It has been decreed at a full meeting of the several syn dicated groups of mills to raise the list price M. 2.50 from the turn of next quarter. The Engineer , LXVII. 174. 2. To effect by means of a syndicate, as a sale of property. [Recent.] This investment was suggested and stimulated by the organization of a corporation which syndicated the sale of the. ale and stout breweries. IMG:content-2706.png:[blocks in formation]