syndicate
noun /ˈsɪndɪkət/
/ˈsɪndɪkət/
- a group of people or companies who work together and help each other in order to achieve a particular aim
辛迪加;企业联合组织;财团;私人联合会 - a crime syndicate
犯罪集团 - an insurance/investment syndicate
保险/投资财团
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crime
- criminal
- drug
- …
- form
- run
- join
- …
- in a/the syndicate
- a member of a syndicate
词源early 17th cent. (denoting a committee of government officials): from French syndicat, from medieval Latin syndicatus, from late Latin syndicus ‘delegate of a corporation’, from Greek sundikos, from sun- ‘together’ + dikē ‘justice’. Current verb senses date from the late 19th cent. - a crime syndicate