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fran·chise

Audio Help [fran-chahyz] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -chised, -chis·ing.

–noun

1.	a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.

2.	the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.

3.	a store, restaurant, or other business operating under such a license.

4.	the territory over which such a license extends.

5.	the right to vote: to guarantee the franchise of every citizen.

6.	a privilege arising from the grant of a sovereign or government, or from prescription, which presupposes a grant.

7.	Sports Slang. a player of great talent or popular appeal, considered vitally important to a team's success or future.

8.	a legal immunity or exemption from a particular burden, exaction, or the like.

9.	Obsolete. freedom, esp. from imprisonment, servitude, or moral restraint.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to grant (an individual, company, etc.) a franchise: The corporation has just franchised our local dealer.

11.	enfranchise.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < OF, deriv. of franc free. See frank¹

]

—Related forms

fran·chis·a·ble, adjective

fran·chis·a·bil·i·ty, noun

fran·chise·ment

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nt, -chiz-] Pronunciation Key, noun

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fran·chise Audio Help (frān'chīz') Pronunciation Key
n.

A privilege or right officially granted a person or a group by a government, especially:
1. The constitutional or statutory right to vote.
2. The establishment of a corporation's existence.
3. The granting of certain rights and powers to a corporation.
4. Legal immunity from servitude, certain burdens, or other restrictions.
5. Authorization granted to someone to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a certain area.
6. A business or group of businesses established or operated under such authorization.
7. A brand name under which a series of products is released.
1. Authorization granted to someone to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a certain area.
2. A business or group of businesses established or operated under such authorization.
3. A brand name under which a series of products is released.
The territory or limits within which immunity, a privilege, or a right may be exercised.
A professional sports team.

tr.v. fran·chised, fran·chis·ing, fran·chis·es
To grant a franchise to.

[Middle English fraunchise, from Old French franchise, from franche, feminine of franc, free, exempt; see frank¹.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
franchise

c.1290, from O.Fr. franchise "freedom," from variant stem of franc "free" (see frank). Sense narrowed 18c. to "particular legal privilege," then "right to vote" (1790). Meaning "authorization by a company to sell its products or services" is from 1959.

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franchise
noun
1.	an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
2.	a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
3.	a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
verb
1.	grant a franchise to

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
franchise1 [ˈfrӕntʃaiz] noun

the right to vote
Example: Women did not get the franchise until the twentieth century.

Arabic:	حَق الأنْتِخاب
Chinese (Simplified):	选举权
Chinese (Traditional):	選舉權
Czech:	volební právo
Danish:	stemmeret
Dutch:	stemrecht
Estonian:	valimisõigus
Finnish:	äänioikeus
French:	droit de vote
German:	das Wahlrecht
Greek:	δικαίωμα ψήφου
Hungarian:	választójog
Icelandic:	kosningaréttur
Indonesian:	hak suara
Italian:	diritto di voto*

Japanese:	選挙権
Korean:	투표권
Latvian:	balsstiesības
Lithuanian:	balsavimo teisė
Norwegian:	stemmerett
Polish:	prawo wyborcze
Portuguese (Brazil):	direito de voto
Portuguese (Portugal):	direito de voto
Romanian:	drept de vot
Russian:	право голоса
Slovak:	volebné právo
Slovenian:	volilna pravica
Spanish:	sufragio
Swedish:	rösträtt
Turkish:	oy hakkı

franchise2 [ˈfrӕntʃaiz] noun

the exclusive right to sell or supply a certain product or service

Arabic:	حق مقصور على بيع وشِراء سِلْعَه معيَّنَه
Chinese (Simplified):	赋予特权
Chinese (Traditional):	賦予特權
Czech:	koncese
Danish:	franchising; licensaftale
Estonian:	ainumüügiõigus
French:	franchise
Greek:	αποκλειστικό δικαίωμα διάθεσης προϊόντος ή υπηρεσίας
Hungarian:	franchise
Indonesian:	hak menjual atau menyediakan produk, *layanan

Italian:	licenza
Latvian:	franšīze, komercpilnvarojums
Lithuanian:	franšizė
Polish:	koncesja
Russian:	привилегия
Slovak:	povolenie, licencia, koncesia
Spanish:	licencia, concesión, franquicia
Swedish:	ensamrätt
Turkish:	imtiyaz hakkı

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
franchise

In politics, the right to vote. The Constitution left the determination of the qualifications of voters to the states. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, states usually restricted the franchise to white men who owned specified amounts of property. Gradually, poll taxes were substituted for property requirements. Before the Civil War, the voting rights of blacks were severely restricted, but the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, declared ratified in 1870, prohibited states from abridging the right to vote on the basis of race. Nevertheless, southern states used a variety of legal ploys to restrict black voting until passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Women were not guaranteed the right to vote in federal elections until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. In 1971 the Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. (See suffrage and suffragette.)

Note: Losing the right to vote, called disfranchisement, is most commonly caused by failing to reregister, a procedure that is required every time a person changes residence.

[Chapter:] American Politics

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franchise

In business, a relationship between a manufacturer and a retailer in which the manufacturer provides the product, sales techniques, and other kinds of managerial assistance, and the retailer promises to market the manufacturer's product rather than that of competitors. For example, most automobile dealerships are franchises. The vast majority of fast food chains are also run on the franchise principle, with the retailer paying to use the brand name.

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franchise

An agreement between a firm and another party in which the firm provides the other party with the right to use the firm's name and to sell or rent its products. Selling franchise rights is a method of expanding a business quickly with a minimum of capital. See also franchisee, franchisor.
A right granted to another party by a government to engage in certain types of business. For example, a firm may obtain a government franchise to supply certain public services within a limited geographic region.

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Main Entry: fran·chise
Pronunciation: 'fran-"chIz
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, literally, freedom, liberty, from Middle French, from franchir to free, from Old French franc free
1 : a special right or privilege granted by the government to an individual, group, or business entity: as a : a right to conduct a business and esp. to be and to exercise the powers of a corporation b : a right granted to a public utility company to provide services and to use public land for that purpose
2 : a constitutional or statutory right; especially : the right to vote —used with the <restricting them in employment, education, the franchise, legal personality, and public accommodation —W. H. Burns>
3 : a right or license that is granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory under the company's trademark, trade name, or service mark and that often involves the use of rules and procedures designed by the company and services (as advertising) and facilities provided by the company in return for fees, royalties, or other compensation; also : a business granted such a right or license <ran a fast-food franchise>
4 a : an amount of liability (as a percentage or sum) specified in an insurance contract below which an insurer disclaims liability and above which the insurer assumes total liability —compare DEDUCTIBLE b : group insurance covering fewer than the minimum number of participants required by law for such coverage

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Franchise

Af*fran"chise\, v. t. [F. affranchir; ? (L. ad) + franc free. See Franchise and Frank.] To make free; to enfranchise. --Johnson.

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Franchise

Fran"chise\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F., fr. franc, fem. franche, free. See Frank, a.]

1. Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.] --Spenser.

2. (LAw) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.

Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. --W. H. Seward.

3. The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. --London Encyc.

4. Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. "Franchise in woman." [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers.

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Franchise

Fran"chise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Franchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Franchising.] [Cf. OF. franchir to free, F., to cross.] To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. --Shak.

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Franchise

Frank\, a. [Compar Franker; superl. Frankest.] [F. franc free, frank, L. Francus a Frank, fr. OHG. Franko the name of a Germanic people on the Rhine, who afterward founded the French monarchy; cf. AS. franca javelin, Icel. frakka. Cf. Franc, French, a., Franchise, n.]

1. Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] "It is of frank gift." --Spenser.

2. Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.

3. Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.]

Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. --L'Estrange.

4. Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. --Spenser.

Syn: Ingenuous; candid; artless; plain; open; unreserved; undisguised; sincere. See Candid, Ingenuous.

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