Syndicate

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.

To judge; to censure.

an association of companies for some definite purpose