Syndicate 293273 223320772 2008-07-03T15:34:42Z Rebekah kbic 7405057 /* Finance */ {{dablink|This article is about the association term. For other uses, see [[Syndicate (disambiguation)]].}} {{Citations missing|date=January 2008}} {{Wiktionarypar|syndicate}} '''Syndicate''' comes from [[French language|French]] ''syndicat'' which means [[trade union]] (''syndic'' meaning ''administrator''), from the [[Latin]] word ''syndicus'' which in turn comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word σύνδικος (''syndikos'') which means ''caretaker of an issue'', compare to [[ombudsman]] or [[Representation (politics)|representative]]. ==Crime syndicates== Crime syndicates are [[criminal organization]]s 'running common businesses'. ==Mass media== In the [[mass media]], a syndicate will offer work for [[wiktionary:syndication|syndication]]. ...... ==Finance== In finance, a group of banks lending, for a specific purpose and to one single [[borrower]], a - mostly large - amount of money is referred to as a '''bank syndicate''' or often only as a '''syndicate'''. In [[investment banking]], refers to a group of investment banks that share [[underwriting]] risk in respect to an issuer's securities. Referred to as the '''[[underwriting syndicate]].''' ==Worker Managed Enterprise== Anarchists, syndicalists and other [[libertarian socialist]]s use the word "syndicate" to refer to an enterprise democratically managed by its workers. Such an enterprises is governed by a face-to-face meeting of everyone who works there, in which each worker has one vote. Either there are no managers, or the managers are democratically elected and recallable. In either case, the most important decisions are made collectively by the whole workforce. This is known as [[workers' self-management]]. ==Femdom syndicate== People who engage in [[BDSM]] often refer to a group of dominant females and their partners as a "femdom syndicate." Often these syndicates have their own offices, tattoos and identity cards. ===See also=== *[[Syndicalism]] *[[Anarcho-syndicalism]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Etymology]] [[ar:صندقة]] [[ast:Sindicatu]] [[br:Sindikad]] [[ca:Sindicat]] [[da:Syndikat]] [[de:Syndikat]] [[et:Ametiühing]] [[es:Sindicato]] [[eo:Sindikato]] [[fr:Syndicat]] [[gl:Sindicato]] [[ko:노동조합]] [[hr:Sindikat]] [[it:Sindacato]] [[he:איגוד מקצועי]] [[lv:Tīmekļa sindikācija]] [[lt:Profesinė sąjunga]] [[ln:Sindika]] [[nl:Vakbond]] [[ja:シンジケート]] [[no:Syndikat]] [[pl:Syndykat]] [[pt:Sindicato]] [[ru:Синдикат]] [[sq:Sindikata]] [[sl:Sindikat]] [[sr:Синдикат]] [[fi:Syndikaatti]] [[th:สหภาพแรงงาน]] [[vi:Công đoàn]] [[tr:Sendika]] [[ur:ٹریڈ یونین]] [[zh:工会]]