1. (v.) To publish simultaneously or (n.) An association of persons\ officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.

2. (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

3. (v. t.) To judge; to censure.

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