Mafia vs. Syndicate

Mafianoun

A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.

Syndicatenoun

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

‘a gambling syndicate’;

Mafianoun

A crime syndicate.

Syndicatenoun

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

Mafianoun

A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.

Syndicatenoun

(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.

Mafianoun

An entity which attempts to control a specified arena.

‘the digital mafia’; ‘the literary mafia’;

Syndicatenoun

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

Mafianoun

see maffia, maffioso.

Syndicateverb

(intransitive) To become a syndicate.

Mafianoun

a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

Syndicateverb

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

Mafianoun

a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century

Syndicateverb

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

Mafianoun

any tightly knit group of trusted associates

Syndicatenoun

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

Mafia

A mafia is a type of organized crime syndicate whose primary activities are protection racketeering, arbitrating disputes between criminals, and brokering and enforcing illegal agreements and transactions. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and fraud.

Syndicatenoun

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.

Syndicatenoun

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.

Syndicatenoun

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.

Syndicateverb

To judge; to censure.

Syndicateverb

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

Syndicateverb

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

Syndicateverb

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.

Syndicateverb

To unite to form a syndicate.

Syndicatenoun

a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Syndicatenoun

an association of companies for some definite purpose

Syndicatenoun

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

Syndicateverb

join together into a syndicate;

‘The banks syndicated’;

Syndicateverb

organize into or form a syndicate

Syndicateverb

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

Syndicatenoun

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

‘a crime syndicate’; ‘large-scale buyouts involving a syndicate of financial institutions’;

Syndicatenoun

an association or agency supplying material simultaneously to a number of newspapers or periodicals.

Syndicatenoun

a committee of syndics.

Syndicateverb

control or manage by a syndicate.

Syndicateverb

publish or broadcast (material) simultaneously in a number of newspapers, television stations, etc.

‘her cartoon strip is syndicated in 1,400 newspapers worldwide’;

Syndicateverb

sell (a horse) to a syndicate

‘the stallion was syndicated for a record $5.4 million’;

Syndicate

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.