Syndicate
comes from the French word syndicat
which means trade union (syndic
meaning administrator
), from the Latin word syndicus
which in turn comes from the Greek word s??d???? (syndikos
) which means caretaker of an issue
, compare to ombudsman or representative.
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Crime syndicates
Crime syndicates are
criminal organizations 'running common businesses'.
Internet Media
Syndicate (v) - to make public and/or publicly available accredited to a specific publisher (or syndicate (n)); as in RSS - Really Simple Syndication
Syndicate (n) - an organization or individual by name and credit.
Finance
In finance, a group of banks lending, for a specific purpose and to one single
borrower, a - mostly large - amount of money is referred to as a
bank syndicate
or often only as a
syndicate
.
In
investment banking, refers to a group of investment banks that share
underwriting risk in respect to an issuer's securities. Referred to as the
underwriting syndicate.
Worker Managed Enterprise
Anarchists, syndicalists and other
libertarian socialists use the word "syndicate" to refer to an enterprise democratically managed by its workers. Such an enterprises is governed by a face-to-face meeting of everyone who works there, in which each worker has one vote. Either there are no managers, or the managers are democratically elected and recallable. In either case, the most important decisions are made collectively by the whole workforce. This is known as
workers' self-management.
Femdom syndicate
People who engage in
BDSM often refer to a group of dominant females and their partners as a "femdom syndicate." Often these syndicates have their own offices, tattoos and identity cards.
Lottery Syndicate
People sometimes play the lottery in a syndicate to increase their chances of winning.
See also
- Syndicalism
- Anarcho-syndicalism
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