See syndic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"syn‧dic"
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"lang_code": "en",
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"word": "syndical"
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"word": "syndicalism"
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"word": "syndicate"
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"word": "syndicateer"
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"word": "syndication"
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"word": "syndicator"
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"word": "official"
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"ref": "1610 October, John Foxe, “A Notable History of the Persecution and Destruction of the People of Merindol and Cabriers in the Country of Prouince: […]”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie, Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, […], 6th edition, volume II, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book VII, marginal note, page 867, column 2:",
"text": "The Bailiffes and Syndicks of Merindoll appeare the ſecond time.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1640, John Reynolds, “History XVII”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of (Wilfull and Premeditated) Murther. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Edward Griffin for William Lee, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 269:",
"text": "[T]he two Syndicks and the reſt of the Magiſtrates of that City began to pry more narrowly into their ſtay, and more neerely into their actions; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1694, [Giovanni Paolo Marana], “Letter I. To Hamet, Reis Effendi, Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire.”, in [Daniel Saltmarsh], transl., The Eighth and Last Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Who Liv’d Five and Forty Years Undiscover’d at Paris: […], volume VIII, London: […] J. R. for J. Hindmarsh and R. Sare, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 232:",
"text": "This City is govern'd by a Syndick and Twenty Five Senators, who meet every Day to conſult about the Affairs of the Commonwealth, and to decide all Cauſes, whether Criminal or Civil.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1905, Mauritius, Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, Louis Arthur Thibaud ·, Ordinances, page 819:",
"text": "A syndic shall be appointed for every canal not being administered by a corporation or other public body on behalf of any part of the community.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1923, J[oseph] C[harles] Mardrus, “The Tale of the Christian Broker”, in [Edward] Powys Mathers, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night […], London: Routledge & Kegal Paul […], published 1956, →OCLC, page 253:",
"text": "To-morrow, after the midday prayer, mount an ass and make for the Habbānīyah quarter and there inquire for the house of the syndic Barakah, known as Abū Shāmah.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, Vintage Books, published 2023, →ISBN, page 35:",
"text": "In 1760 one Intendant went so far as to dissolve the militia altogether and appointed syndics to carry on the local government.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"text": "In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property.",
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"text": "The University of Cambridge has syndics who are chosen from the senate to transact special business, such as the regulation of fees and the framing of laws.",
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"ref": "1890, Southern Reporter - Volume 6, page 99:",
"text": "The duties and powers of a provisional syndic are distinctly set out in section 1793 of the Revised Statutes. It says that \"the duties of the provisional syndic shall consist in keeping, as a deposit, all the goods and other effects of the insolvent debtor; […]\"",
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{
"ref": "1896, William L. Stewart, The Snow-Church Company's Legal and Banking Year Book, page 250:",
"text": "After such cession and acceptance, property of debtor mentioned in schedule shall be vested in creditors; and syndic shall take possession of same and administer and sell according to law.",
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{
"ref": "1918, Edward Franklin White, William Kernan Dart, Louisiana Digest Annotated, page 123:",
"text": "A judgment homologating the final account of the syndic of an insolvent estate, which becomes final, is res judicata to all parties who participated in the cession or in concurso.",
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"ref": "1912, Catholic Encyclopedia - Volume 14, page 385:",
"text": "The larger powers with which the syndic was invested by Martin IV and by his successors, Martin V (\"Constitutiones Martinianae\") in Wadding, \"Annales\", X, 301) and Paul IV (\"Ex Clementi\", 1 July, 1555), gave rise to the appellation syndicus Martinianus in contradistinction to syndicus communis.",
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],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "visš administrator",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"word": "висш администратор"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"word": "sündik"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "syndic"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "syndique"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"word": "sindiko"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sindaco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sindaca"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "syndicus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ecdicus"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"word": "sendegue"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "síndico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "government official having different duties depending on the country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "síndica"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"masculine"
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"word": "синдик"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
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"masculine"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "agent of a corporation, or of any body of people engaged in a business enterprise",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "agent of a corporation, or of any body of people engaged in a business enterprise",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "síndica"
}
],
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"Rembrandt",
"Rijksmuseum Amsterdam"
],
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}
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