Syndicate vs. Union — What's the Difference?

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.

The act of uniting or the state of being united.

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

A combination so formed, especially an alliance or confederation of people, parties, or political entities for mutual interest or benefit.

A committee of syndics.

(Mathematics) A set, every member of which is an element of one or another of two or more given sets.

Control or manage by a syndicate.

Agreement or harmony resulting from the uniting of individuals; concord.

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

The state of matrimony; marriage

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

Sexual intercourse.

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

A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.

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

A workhouse maintained by such a union.

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

A labor union.

To organize into or manage as a syndicate.

A coupling device for connecting parts, such as pipes or rods.

To sell (a horse) to a syndicate.

A device on a flag or ensign, occupying the upper inner corner or the entire field, that signifies the union of two or more sovereignties.

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

An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.

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

A building housing such facilities.

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

Union The United States of America regarded as a national unit, especially during the Civil War.

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

Union Of, relating to, or loyal to the United States of America during the Civil War

To join together in a syndicate.

Of or relating to a labor union or labor union organizing

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

(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

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

(countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.

(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.

(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.

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

(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.

(intransitive) To become a syndicate.

(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.

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

(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.

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

The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.

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

(countable) The act or state of marriage.

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.

Sexual intercourse.

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 data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.

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.

A large, high-quality pearl.

To judge; to censure.

(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

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

To combine sets using the union operation.

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

Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.

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.

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

To unite to form a syndicate.

Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

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; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.

An association of companies for some definite purpose

A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

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

A large, fine pearl.

Join together into a syndicate;

A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

Organize into or form a syndicate

A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

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

A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;

The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;

The state of being joined or united or linked;

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);

Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;

A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;

The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;

A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

The act of making or becoming a single unit;

Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;

Of trade unions;