different between alliance vs syndicate

English

Alternative forms

• alliaunce

Etymology

From Middle English alliaunce, from Old French aliance (French: alliance). Equivalent to ally +? -ance. Compare with Doric Greek ???? (halía, "assembly").

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??la?.?ns/
• Rhymes: -a??ns

Noun

alliance (countable and uncountable, plural alliances)

1. (uncountable) The state of being allied.

2. (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
3. (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
4. (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
   • 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated

     the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel

   • 1860, Henry Longueville Mansel, Prolegomena Logica: An Inquiry Into the Psychological Character of Logical Processes

     the alliance […] between logic and metaphysics

5. (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.

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Synonyms

• (union by relationship in qualities): connection, affinity, union, allyship
• (act of allying): union
• (persons or parties allied): coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)

Related terms

• ally

Translations

Verb

alliance (third-person singular simple present alliances, present participle alliancing, simple past and past participle allianced)

1. (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

Further reading

• alliance at OneLook Dictionary Search
• alliance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ancillae, canaille

French

Etymology

allier +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lj??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

alliance f (plural alliances)

1. alliance, union
2. wedding ring

Descendants

• ? Polish: alians
• ? Portuguese: aliança
• ? Russian: ??????? (al?jáns), ???????? (al?jáns)
  • ? Armenian: ?????? (alyans)
  • ? Kazakh: ?????? (al?yans)
• ? Turkish: alyans

Further reading

• “alliance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• canaille

Middle English

Noun

alliance

1. Alternative form of alliaunce

English

Etymology

From French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”), from syndic (“syndic; representative; chief magistrate of Geneva”) + -at (“suffix denoting an action or result of an action”), from Medieval Latin *syndicatus, from syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town; syndic”) (from Ancient Greek ???????? (súndikos, “advocate for a defendant”), from ??? (sún, “beside; with”) + ???? (dík?, “judgment; justice”)) + -?tus (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality”).

Compare Italian sindacato (“syndicate; trade union; audit, control, supervision”), Occitan sendegat, Portuguese sindicato (“trade union”), Spanish sindicado, sindicato (“office of a syndic; syndicate; trade union”).

Pronunciation

• Noun: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?k?t/
• Verb: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?ke?t/
• Hyphenation: syn?dic?ate

Noun

syndicate (plural syndicates)

1. A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
   1. (crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
   2. (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.
2. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.

Translations

Verb

syndicate (third-person singular simple present syndicates, present participle syndicating, simple past and past participle syndicated)

1. (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
2. (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
3. (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.

Related terms

• syndicated (adjective)
• syndication
• syndicator

Translations

Further reading

• syndicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• asyndetic, centidays, cystidean