different between syndicate vs conglomerate

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

English

Etymology

From Latin conglomer?tus, past participle of conglomer?re (“to pile into a heap, to roll together”), from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + glomer?re (from glomer? (“to pile into a heap, to make into a ball, glomerate”), from glomus (“ball of thread; ball-shaped mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; ball”)).

Pronunciation

• Noun, adjective:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n??l?m(?)??t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n??l?m(?)??t/
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n??l?m??e?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n??l?m??e?t/
• Hyphenation: con?glo?mer?ate

Noun

conglomerate (plural conglomerates)

1. A cluster of heterogeneous things.
2. (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
3. (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.

Translations

See also

• aggregate
• composite

Adjective

conglomerate (comparative more conglomerate, superlative most conglomerate)

1. Clustered together into a mass.
2. (geology) Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.

Translations

Verb

conglomerate (third-person singular simple present conglomerates, present participle conglomerating, simple past and past participle conglomerated)

1. (transitive) To combine together into a larger mass.
2. (transitive, business) To combine together into a larger corporation.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• conglomerate (company) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• conglomerate (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• conglomerate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

conglomerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of conglomerare
2. second-person plural imperative of conglomerare
3. feminine plural of conglomerato