Syndicated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Relating to the organized distribution of media or information through multiple platforms
2. Connected to a collaborative system for distributing content and sharing resources among several organizations
3. Made available across various media outlets or channels for broader dissemination ; associated with cooperative ventures sharing content and resources

Etymology: Long before a newspaper column could be "syndicated," the Greek word "sundikos" meant an advocate who spoke for a defendant in court, built from "sun" ("together") and "dike" ("judgment"). Medieval Latin turned it into "syndicus," a representative of a town or guild, and the French "syndic" kept that sense of an official who acts on behalf of a group. The English noun "syndicate" came from French "syndicat," the office of a syndic or a board of syndics, and it was later used for a trade union. The sense of a group pooling its resources for a shared purpose is what carried the word into business, and from there into publishing, where one article could be sold to many newspapers at once. The verb form used here, "syndicated," describes content distributed through such an arrangement, with several outlets sharing the same material.

Synonyms: distributed, broadcasted