Definition of Franchise

1. Noun. An authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place.

Generic synonyms: Concession, Grant

2. Verb. Grant a franchise to.
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Certify, Licence, License

3. Noun. A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area.

4. Noun. A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote).
Exact synonyms: Enfranchisement
Generic synonyms: Legal Right
Specialized synonyms: Right To Vote, Suffrage, Vote
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Enfranchise

Definition of Franchise

1. n. Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

2. v. t. To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

Definition of Franchise

1. [v -CHISED, -CHISING, -CHISES]

Medical Definition of Franchise

1. 1. Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. 2. 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, especially. 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." Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers. Origin: F, fr. Franc, fem. Franche, free. See Frank. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Franchise

framycetin
franc
franc
franc-tireur
France
Franceschetti
Franceschetti's syndrome
Franceschetti-Jadassohn syndrome
Francesco Petrarca
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Wright
Franche-Comte
franchise (current term)
franchise (current term)
franchised
franchisee
franchisees
franchiser
franchisers
franchises
franchise tax
franchising
franchisor
franchisors
franciscan
Franciscan
Franciscan order
Francisco de Goya

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