Thesaurus: franchise

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1. a. Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
2. a. 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.
3. a. The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
4. a. Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
5. v. t. To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
6. n. an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
7. n. a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
8. n. a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
9. v. grant a franchise to
10. A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or agovernment, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption fromordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right orprivilege, esp. the right to vote.Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, isthe one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.
11. v:8/n:92 n. an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place n. a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area n. a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) v. grant a franchise to