SYNDICATE  , a See also:

• TERM

term originally meaning a See also:

• BODY

body of syndics . In this sense it is still sometimes used, as at the university of See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, for the body of members or See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee responsible for the management of the University See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

Press . In See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, a syndicate is a body of persons who combine to carry through some See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial transaction, or who undertake a See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

adventure . Syndicates are very often formed to acquire or take over some undertaking, held it for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and then resell it to a See also:

• COMPANY

company . The profits are then distributed and the syndicate dissolves . Sometimes syndicates are formed under agreements which constitute them See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere partnerships, the members being therefore individually responsible, but they are now more generally incorporated under the Companies Acts . The more usual eases in which syndicates are commonly formed will be found in F . B . See also:

• PALMER
• PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (1840-1882)
• PALMER, ERASTUS DOW (1817-1904)
• PALMER, GEORGE (1818-1897)
• PALMER, JOHN
• PALMER, RAY (1808-1887)
• PALMER, SAMUEL (1805-1881)
• PALMER, SIR CHARLES MARK, BART

Palmer's Company Precedents, loth ed., vol. i. pp . 129 seq .