associate vs syndicate

associate

noun
  • A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner. 

  • A companion; a comrade. 

  • One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. 

  • One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit). 

  • Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. 

  • A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. 

verb
  • To connect or join together; combine. 

  • To join as a partner, ally, or friend. 

  • To endorse. 

  • To join in or form a league, union, or association. 

  • To spend time socially; keep company. 

  • To be associative. 

  • To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination. 

adj
  • Joined with another or others and having lower status. 

  • Having partial status or privileges. 

  • Following or accompanying; concomitant. 

syndicate

noun
  • A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group. 

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

  • A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization. 

  • A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime. 

verb
  • To become a syndicate. 

  • To put under the control of a group acting as a unit. 

  • To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets. 

How often have the words associate and syndicate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )