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syndicated

syndicated is the simple past and past participle of syndicate.

Meaning of syndicate

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
    • [H]e [John Guthrie McCallum] went to Los Angeles and set up a law practice. There, with three partners and a capitalization of $100,000, they syndicated under the name Palm Valley Land and Water Company in 1887.2006, Greg Niemann, “A Settlement is Born (Late 1800s)”, in Palm Springs Legends: Creation of a Desert Oasis (Adventures in the Natural History and Cultural Heritage of the Californias), San Diego...
  2. (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
    • When a potential transaction has been identified by a bank, the first activity is obtaining from the potential borrower a "mandate," which is the customer's exclusive authorization to a bank to act as the syndication manager for that particular transaction and to approach other financial...1999, Esteban C. Buljevich, Yoon S. Park, “Syndicated Eurocredit Loans”, in Project Financing and the International Financial Markets, Boston, Mass.; Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN...
  3. (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.
    • [I]nternational television format exchanges are providing a customizable alternative to syndicating existing TV series in foreign markets. Sixteen countries around the world have adapted So You Think You Can Dance, a reality dance competition that originated in the United States. Format changes...2015, Avi Santo, “Building the Franchise One Market at a Time: The Lone Ranger’s Extra-Textual Career in the Late 1930s”, in Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing...

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Adjective

syndicated

  1. (usually) published in multiple newspapers or magazines simultaneously via an agency.
    • Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37

Words formed from syndicated

Questions about syndicated

What does syndicated mean?
Syndicated means published in multiple newspapers or magazines simultaneously via an agency.
What is syndicated the simple past and past participle of?
Syndicated is the simple past and past participle of syndicate.
What part of speech is syndicated?
Syndicated is an adjective.

Words near syndicated in the dictionary

  1. syndicalisms
  2. syndicalist
  3. syndicalists
  4. syndically
  5. syndicate
  6. syndicated
  7. syndicateer
  8. syndicateers
  9. syndicates
  10. syndicating
  11. syndication

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syndicated (page history and authors); syndicate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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