Syndic
WordNet
noun
(1) One appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
WiktionaryText
Noun
- a government official, a magistrate, especially one of the Chief Magistrates of Geneva
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- 1923: ‘To-morrow, after the midday prayer, mount an ass and make for the Habbānīyah quarter and there enquire for the house of the syndic Barakah, known as Abū Shāmah.’ — The Thousand Nights and One Night, tr. Powys Mathers
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Etymology
From late Latin syndicus ‘delegate of a corporation’, from Greek συνδικος ‘defendant’s advocate’, from συν− + the base of δικη ‘judgement’, δεικνυσθαι ‘show’.