Meaning of FRANCHISE
| Pronunciation: | | 'franchIz
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- [n] a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the right to vote)
- [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
- [v] grant a franchise to; in commerce
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| | See Also: | | business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, certify, concern, concession, grant, legal right, licence, license, right to vote, suffrage, vote | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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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