syndic

American  

[sin-dik] / ˈsɪn dɪk /

noun

1. a person chosen to represent and transact business for a corporation, as a university.

2. a civil magistrate having different powers in different countries.

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syndic British  

/ ˈsɪndɪk /

noun

1. a business agent of some universities or other bodies

2. (in several countries) a government administrator or magistrate with varying powers

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Other Word Forms

• syndicship
  noun
• syndical
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of syndic

1595–1605; < French < Late Latin syndicus city official < Greek sýndikos counsel for defendant, equivalent to syn- syn- + dik- (stem of dikḗ ) justice + -os noun suffix

Example Sentences

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syndic

Wildenhahn now subjoins the following: “Tell me honestly,” said the syndic to him, “have you really, as you allege, taken no steps whatever, in order to obtain this call from Halberstadt?”

From True Christianity by Johann Arndt

Even the stout syndic of Ghent was allowed to go unharmed.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

At my request an infantry picket went into the town to find the burgomaster, the syndic of the boatmen, and five of his best hands.

From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

A couple of hours afterwards Dr. Gentzkow, the syndic, sent for me to come to the St. Nicholas' Church.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow

He, nevertheless, remained syndic, that is, legal adviser to the city, just as, after his admission to the council, Sastrow continued his functions of protonotary, or first secretary.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow