syndication

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

syndication
    n 1: organizing into or administering as a syndicate
    2: selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many
       magazines or newspapers at the same time; "he received a
       comfortable income from the syndication of his work"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Syndication \Syn`di*ca"tion\, n.
   Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "syndication":
      Anschluss, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation,
      agreement, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association,
      blend, blending, cabal, cartel, centralization, coalescence,
      coalition, combination, combine, combo, composition, confederacy,
      confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction,
      consolidation, conspiracy, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment,
      enosis, federalization, federation, fusion, hookup, inclusion,
      incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, marriage,
      meld, melding, merger, package, package deal, solidification,
      syncretism, syneresis, synthesis, tie-up, unification, union,
      wedding