What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Syndicate vs Association - What's the difference?

syndicate | association |

As nouns the difference between syndicate and association

is that syndicate is a group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group while association is the act of associating.

As a verb syndicate

is to become a syndicate.

syndicate

English

Noun

(wikipedia syndicate) (en noun)
  • A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
  • A similar group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
  • A chain of newspapers, or an agency that distributes features to multiple newspapers.
  • The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council or body of syndics.
  • (Bishop Burnet)

    Synonyms

    * (roughly) — business partners

    Verb

    (syndicat)
  • To become a syndicate.
  • To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
  • To release media content through a syndicate to be published or broadcast through multiple outlets.
  • Anagrams

    *

    association

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  • Derived terms

    * guilt by association