different between syndicate vs corporation

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 Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/

Noun

corporation (plural corporations)

1. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
3. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

   Synonym: paunch

   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

     'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:

     He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620,^[2]

     The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.

Derived terms

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• corporation tax

Hyponyms

• (body corporate): public limited company (UK)

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

Translations

Further reading

• corporation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corporation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

corporation f (plural corporations)

1. corporation
2. guild