Syndicate
Organized criminal group
A syndicate is a group of individuals or organizations combined to pursue a common interest, usually commercial or financial.
News syndicates distribute content to multiple outlets; crime syndicates coordinate illegal enterprises.
In gambling, a syndicate pools money for large bets.
To syndicate content is to sell it for publication across multiple platforms: The comic strip is syndicated in over 200 newspapers.
Price-fixing coalition
- mafiaCriminal organization using intimidation
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- racketUproar, scam, or paddle
- organized crimeStructured illegal enterprise
boss · kingpin · smuggling · trafficking · laundering · underworld · gang · crime family
Cooperative group for ventures
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- poolingMerging shared contributions
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- ventureRisky new undertaking
capital · partnership · fund · collective · underwriting · securities · investors · joint
Staking money on outcomes
- bookmakerOne who takes bets
- oddsLikelihood expressed numerically
- wageringRisking money on outcomes
- numbersCounting and calculation symbols
lottery · pool · illegal · runners · ticket · payout · bookie · operation
Joining into one
- collectiveJointly organized group
- workersPeople doing jobs
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
bargaining · association · organization · membership · federation · trade · solidarity · industrial
Allocation across recipients
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
- wire serviceOrganization distributing news widely
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
content · licensing · reprint · affiliate · circulation · publication · network · rights
cartel
Price-fixing coalition
- mafiaCriminal organization using intimidation
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- racketUproar, scam, or paddle
organized crime · boss · kingpin · smuggling · trafficking · laundering · underworld · gang · crime family · extortion
consortium
Cooperative group for ventures
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- poolingMerging shared contributions
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
venture · capital · partnership · fund · collective · underwriting · securities · investors · joint · portfolio
betting
Staking money on outcomes
numbers · lottery · pool · illegal · runners · ticket · payout · bookie · operation · take
union
Joining into one
- collectiveJointly organized group
- workersPeople doing jobs
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
cooperative · bargaining · association · organization · membership · federation · trade · solidarity · industrial · chapter
distribution
Allocation across recipients
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
- wire serviceOrganization distributing news widely
broadcast · content · licensing · reprint · affiliate · circulation · publication · network · rights · strip
- X-FilesMulder, Scully, FBI, Skinner, aliens
- DominicaPortsmouth, Saint Joseph, Salisbury, Wesley, Stowe
- PublishersSimon & Schuster, book publisher, Penguin Books, Penguin, Random House
- Business SuffixesLLC, Ltd, Corp, Co, GmbH
- retro softwareMS-DOS, WordPerfect, Windows 3.1, Norton, BASIC
- WitcherLambert, signs, medallion, white wolf, silver sword
Syndicateindividual
One separate human being
lone wolf · single person · freelancer · independent · maverick
- criminal syndicatesOrganized illegal business groups
- crime syndicatesOrganized criminal enterprises
- the syndicateOrganized criminal network
- syndicated showsPrograms licensed to multiple stations
- lottery syndicateGroup buying chances together
- betting syndicateOrganized group pooling wagers
syndicalism, syndicalist, syndication, syndicated, syndicates, syndicating