a group of people or companies who work together and help each other in order to achieve a particular aim 辛迪加;企业联合组织;财团;私人联合会 a crime syndicate 犯罪集团 an insurance/investment syndicate 保险/投资财团
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crime
- criminal
- drug
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- form
- run
- join
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- in a/the syndicate
- a member of a syndicate
Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a committee of government officials): from French syndicat, from medieval Latin syndicatus, from late Latin syndicus ‘delegate of a corporation’, from Greek sundikos, from sun- ‘together’ + dikē ‘justice’. Current verb senses date from the late 19th cent.