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franchise
[fran-chahyz]
noun
a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government.
a franchise to operate a bus system.
the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.
a store, restaurant, or other business operating under such a license.
the territory over which such a license extends.
the right to vote.
to guarantee the franchise of every citizen.
a privilege arising from the grant of a sovereign or government, or from prescription, which presupposes a grant.
Sports.Ģż
the right to own or operate a professional sports team as a member of a league.
a professional sports team.
a player of great talent or popular appeal, considered vitally important to a team's success or future.
a set of creative works and related merchandise that share a fictional world, as films, television shows, books, or games.
the Star Wars franchise;
the PokƩmon franchise.
a legal immunity or exemption from a particular burden, exaction, or the like.
Obsolete.Ģżfreedom, especially from imprisonment, servitude, or moral restraint.
verb (used with object)
to grant (an individual, company, etc.) a franchise.
The corporation has just franchised our local dealer.
franchise
/ ĖfrƦntŹÉŖzmÉnt, ĖfrƦntŹaÉŖz /
noun
the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
any exemption, privilege, or right granted to an individual or group by a public authority, such as the right to use public property for a business
commerce authorization granted by a manufacturing enterprise to a distributor to market the manufacturer's products
the full rights of citizenship
films a film that is or has the potential to be part of a series and lends itself to merchandising
(in marine insurance) a sum or percentage stated in a policy, below which the insurer disclaims all liability
verb
(tr) commerce to grant (a person, firm, etc) a franchise
an obsolete word for enfranchise
franchise
1In 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.
franchise
2In 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.)
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- franchisable adjective
- franchisability noun
- franchisement noun
- overfranchised adjective
- subfranchise noun
- unfranchised adjective
- Ė“Ś°ł²¹²Ō³¦³ó¾±²õ±š°ł noun
- Ė“Ś°ł²¹²Ō³¦³ó¾±Ė²õ±š±š noun
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of franchise1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of franchise1
Example Sentences
In addition to franchises like StretchLab and Stretch Zone, many personal trainers offer assisted stretching, as do most physical therapists.
Expectations were high for the Universal film, which revives a profitable franchise for the studio.
As Paramount struggles to complete a key merger, the company is in the midst of a protracted negotiation to extend one of its biggest and most important franchises: the long-running foulmouthed cartoon āSouth Park.ā
The Premiership believes that a franchise system - with on-pitch relegation scrapped, but teams obliged to hit centrally-set standards on and off the pitch - would attract a flush of new money.
āAI has the power to expand on that mission and broaden the reach of our brands in new and exciting ways,ā said Josh Silverman, chief franchise officer at Mattel, in a statement.
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