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Syndicate vs Union - What's the difference?

syndicate | union |

As nouns the difference between syndicate and union

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 union is the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

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

    *

    union

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  • (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
  • (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  • (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  • (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  • (countable) The act or state of marriage.
  • (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
  • (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
  • A large, high-quality pearl.
  • *, II.3.3:
  • Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].

    Synonyms

    * junction, coalition, combination

    Derived terms

    * banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet Union

    See also

    * intersection * (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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