Syndic

[sindik]

Definition

(noun.) one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions.

Edited by Ben--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

(n.) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.

Typed by Ernestine

Definition

n. the chief magistrate in Geneva one of those officers delegated as agents by cities in France under the old ré–“ime &c.: one chosen to transact business for others esp. the accredited legal representative of a corporation society or company.—n. Syn′dicāte a body of syndics: a council: the office of a syndic: a body of men chosen to watch the interests of a company or to manage a bankrupt's property esp. an association of merchants or others for the purpose of carrying through some great or important enterprise or for securing a kind of artificial monopoly in the production or supply of some commodity.—v.t. to effect by means of a syndicate.—v.i. to join in a syndicate.—ns. Syndicā′tion; Syn′dicātor.

Editor: Lucia