syndicate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An association of people or firms formed to promote a common interest or carry out a business enterprise.
• noun A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities.
• noun An agency that sells articles, features, or photographs for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously.
• noun A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain.
• noun The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics.
• intransitive verb To organize into or manage as a syndicate.
• intransitive verb To sell (a horse) to a syndicate.
• intransitive verb To sell (a comic strip or column, for example) through a syndicate for simultaneous publication in newspapers or periodicals.
• intransitive verb To sell (a television series, for example) directly to independent stations.
• intransitive verb To create a feed for (a website), allowing users to include content from the website in other websites or to view the content.
• intransitive verb To include (the contents of a website) on another website by using a feed.
• intransitive verb To join together in a syndicate.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To unite in a syndicate; associate: as, syndicated capitalists.
• To effect by means of a syndicate, as a sale of property.
• To judge; censure.
• noun A council or body of syndics; the office, state, or jurisdiction of a syndic.
• noun An association of persons or corporations formed with the view of promoting some particular enterprise, discharging some trust, or the like; a combination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To unite to form a syndicate.
• noun The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
• noun An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project.
• noun A more or less organized association of criminals controlling some aspects of criminal activity, in a specific area or country-wide; -- used loosely as a synonym for organized crime or the mafia.
• noun (Journalism) a commercial organization that purchases various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resells them to newspapers or other periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area.
• transitive verb To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.
• transitive verb To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate.
• transitive verb (Journalism) to purchase various journalistic items, such as articles, columns, or comic strips, from their individual creators, and resell them to numerous periodicals for simultaneous publication over a wide area.
• transitive verb obsolete To judge; to censure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
• noun A similar group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
• noun A chain of newspapers, or an agency that distributes features to multiple newspapers.
• verb intransitive To become a syndicate.
• verb transitive To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
• verb transitive To release media content through a syndicate to be published or broadcast through multiple outlets.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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