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- noun Plural form of
syndicate .
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Examples
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One particular characteristic about both kinds of syndicates is that they are not only the legal representatives, according to our law, of the actual membership, but the contracts which from time to time they make with the opposing syndicates let them call them opposing, one as labour and one employer.
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Within a year of the passing of the Prostitution Control Act, it was revealed that Victorian sex industrialists were involved in the lucrative international sex trade run by crime syndicates, which is worth $A30 million in Australia Robinson, 1995.
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The Mpumalanga government on Tuesday warned that fraudulent licence syndicates, that issued thousands of fake drivers licences from former homeland testing centres throughout the province, had now moved their operations to major cities such as Witbank.
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And lest we forget that whatever money is not used by the Illuminist banks that they have borrowed from the Fed at near zero interest to speculate with is parked with the Fed at 2.5% risk-free, a gift of the US taxpayer because we just love to get hosed by our criminal syndicates aka
Canada Free Press Bob Chapman 2010
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Lately, Universal has put much of its weight behind Vevo, an online music-video platform that sells its own advertisements and "syndicates" its videos via sites including
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The offices had been virtually taken over by what Chauke described as "syndicates", who claim to be members of some NGOs.
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It was difficult to distinguish between a genuine home affairs official and members of the "syndicates", as the latter had full access to applications forms, computers and other equipment in the office.
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In addition, the South African security industry's ability to fight international crime (such as syndicates) would benefit greatly from the co-operation which would arise from the visit.
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Various other terms are used such as syndicates, guilds and confederations, to denote the different industrial bodies, but they are all unions.
Fascism 1934
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They led to the organization of "syndicates" which devoted all their energies, for
The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry Burton Jesse Hendrick 1909
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