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• n  a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
• n  an association of companies for some definite purpose
• n  a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
• v  join together into a syndicate
  The banks syndicated
• v  organize into or form a syndicate
• v  sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

• The practical brains of the group seemed to be a fifth figure, Board Chairman Virgil Vercingetorix McNitt of McNaught (McNitt) newspaper syndicate, onetime publisher of defunct .
• Still going strong in 1,000 newspapers under McAdam, 72, the syndicate now features, besides tireless Joe, the Flintstones, Dixie Dugan, Mickey Finn, and Abigail ("Dear Abby .
• Funny material to be purveyed by the new syndicate had a heavy rural cast.

• crime syndicate
• mob
• family
• consortium
• pool

News & Articles

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• A.M. Best Comments on Ratings of Lloyd’s Syndicate 609
  A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has commented that the financial strength rating of A and issuer credit rating of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 609 remains unchanged following the recent announcement that Enstar Group Limited and Arden Holdings Ltd.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Morgan Stanley Said to Name Bonetti for Leveraged Finance Post
  Morgan Stanley (MS) , owner of the world’s largest brokerage, promoted Jim Bonetti to head its U.S. leveraged finance syndicate team, two people briefed on the decision said.
  June 10, 2013 - Bloomberg
• IntelePeer Secures New Financing to Fuel Growth
  IntelePeer, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand, cloud-based communications, today announced the closing of an additional cash investment from a syndicate of existing investors, fulfilling the first ...
  June 10, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Tim Morris in The Age
  The commitment by these AFP investigators and their international counterparts led to the arrest of a key player in this global drug syndicate,Assistant Commissioner Morris said in a statement. "The syndicate targets people who are...
• Mick Keelty in The Age
  We are part of a European and Australian attempt to shut this syndicate down,Commissioner Keelty said.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington Post
  Although "the people who attacked us" were al-Qaeda, the threat that justifies today's escalation is, Clinton says, a "syndicate of terror" of which al-Qaeda is just an important part.