syndicate
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈsɪndɪˌkeɪt/
:
organización criminal
- Apparently, he's the head of some kind of crime syndicate in that city.
- criminal syndicate
- crime syndicate
- drug syndicate
No criminal syndicate gives a fuck whether you make it or not across that Channel because you've had your money you've paid upfront.
- No criminal syndicate gives a fuck whether you make it or not across that Channel because you've had your money you've paid upfront.
- The sharp people, the people that that millions of dollars, the syndicates, all that money's on Frisco.
Examples
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Drug syndicates in Latin America are developing delivery routes through West Africa to Europe.
Academic text (2009) -
If by business, you mean running an organized crime syndicate.
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It's determined he'll attempt to set up a new drug lab and form a crime syndicate.
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While there are clubs that are connected to criminal syndicates, many others have little or nothing to do with them.
Academic text (2007) -
In the span of six months, he took total control of the five major syndicates.
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Since the Iron Curtain has gone down, the Russian syndicates have started to come here.
Fiction book (1999) -
They're associated with the Serbian crime syndicate up north.
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This serial killer will only kill mid-to high-ranking members of the Italian-American organized crime syndicate.
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Outlaw motorcycle gangs in Canada represent large criminal syndicates with chapters in various provinces and the U.S.
Academic text (2007) -
The police arrested several members of a drug trafficking syndicate that operated in multiple states.
Synonyms
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2.4
People who act together for a common purpose, for example a company or a crime group
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2.8
A group of people who commit crimes together
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7.2
A group of people who work together to do illegal things
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5.3
A group of criminals who run illegal businesses together
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4.4
A secret group that commits crimes and controls illegal businesses
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4.5
An organized group of criminals who work together to do illegal things
A group of dishonest people who work together to commit crimes
Compounds
How Organized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Syndicate comes from syn- 'together' and the idea of people acting as one unit. Because of this, the word also came to mean a group that works together for crime, so a criminal syndicate is a group joined to do illegal business.