Gang vs. Syndicate — What's the Difference?

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior. Gangs arose in America by the middle of the nineteenth century and were a concern for city leaders from the time they appeared.

A syndicate is a self-organizing group of individuals, companies, corporations or entities formed to transact some specific business, to pursue or promote a shared interest.

A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.

A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote a common interest

A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.

A committee of syndics.

(Informal) A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis

Control or manage by a syndicate.

A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson

An association of people or firms formed to promote a common interest or carry out a business enterprise.

A matched or coordinated set, as of tools

A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities.

A pack of wolves or wild dogs.

An agency that sells articles, features, or photographs for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously.

A herd, especially of buffalo or elk.

A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain.

Variant of gangue.

The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics.

To band together as a group or gang.

To organize into or manage as a syndicate.

To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production

To sell (a horse) to a syndicate.

To attack as an organized group.

To sell (a comic strip or column, for example) through a syndicate for simultaneous publication in newspapers or periodicals.

To go; walk; proceed.

To sell (a television series, for example) directly to independent stations.

(transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.

To create a feed for (a website), allowing users to include content from the website in other websites or to view the content.

Pronunciation spelling of gan

To include (the contents of a website) on another website by using a feed.

Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.

To join together in a syndicate.

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.

A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

(crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.

A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

(mass media) A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.

A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.

A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

(intransitive) To become a syndicate.

(US) A chain gang.

(transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.

A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.

A set; all required for an outfit.

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

(electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

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; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.

(electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

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.

A going, journey; a course, path, track.

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.

(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

To judge; to censure.

To go; to walk.

To combine or form into, or manage as, a syndicate.

A going; a course.

To acquire or control for or by, or to subject to the management of, a syndicate; as, syndicated newspapers.

A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

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; a syndicated columnist.

A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

To unite to form a syndicate.

A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

An association of companies for some definite purpose

A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang.

A news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication

A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.

Join together into a syndicate;

An association of criminals;

Organize into or form a syndicate

An informal body of friends;

Sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

An organized group of workmen

Tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

Act as an organized group