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enfranchise

[en-fran-chahyz]

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verb (used with object), -chised, -chis·ing.

to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.

to endow (a city, constituency, etc.) with municipal or parliamentary rights.

to set free; liberate, as from slavery.

Also, franchise.

Origin:
1505–15; < Middle French, Old French enfranchiss- (long stem of enfranchir to free), equivalent to en- en-¹ + franch- free (see frank¹) + iss- -ish²

Related forms

en·fran·chise·ment

[en-fran-chahyz-muhnt, -chiz-] , noun

en·fran·chis·er, noun

un·en·fran·chised, adjective

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The effort could enfranchise millions of people who have lived in this country for years without seeking citizenship.

His strategy was to create public jobs for the unemployed, enfranchise labor and expand the minimum wage.

In a direct presidential election, any state that chose to enfranchise its women would have automatically doubled its clout.

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enfranchise (ɪnˈfræntʃaɪz)

—vb
1.	to grant the power of voting to, esp as a right of citizenship
2.	to liberate, as from servitude
3.	(in England) to invest (a town, city, etc) with the right to be represented in Parliament
4.	English law to convert (leasehold) to freehold

en'franchisement

—n

en'franchiser

—n

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Word Origin & History

enfranchise

1530s, from O.Fr. enfranchiss-, extended stem of enfranchir, from en- "make, put in" + franc "free" (see franchise). Related: Enfranchised; enfranchisement.

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"Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request—it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this."

-Susan B. Anthony

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