Crossword clues for franchise
franchise
- An authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
- A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
- A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the right to vote)
- Selling rights his in continental country
- Right to vote in an election
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Franchise \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.
Franchise \Fran"chise\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F., fr. franc, fem. franche, free. See Frank, a.]
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.]
--Spenser.-
(LAw) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an immunity 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.
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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.
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Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. ``Franchise in woman.'' [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to make free," from Old French franchiss-, past participle stem of franchir "to free" (12c.), from franc "free" (see frank (adj.)). Franchising is from 1570s; the commercial licensing sense is from 1966. Related: Franchisee; franchiser; franchisor.
c.1300, fraunchise, "a special right or privilege (by grant of a sovereign or government);" also "national sovereignty; nobility of character, generosity; the king's authority; the collective rights claimed by a people or town or religious institution," also used of the state of Adam and Eve before the Fall, from Old French franchise "freedom, exemption; right, privilege" (12c.), from variant stem of franc "free" (see frank (adj.)).\n
\nFrom late 14c. as "freedom; not being in servitude; social status of a freeman;" early 15c. as "citizenship, membership in a community or town; membership in a craft or guild." The "special right" sense narrowed 18c. to "particular legal privilege," then "right to vote" (1790). From mid-15c. as "right to buy or sell," also "right to exclude others from buying or selling, a monopoly;" meaning "authorization by a company to sell its products or services" is from 1959.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government. 2 An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership. 3 The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain are
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4 A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee. 5 A legal exemption from jurisdiction. 6 The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship. 7 The right to vote at a public election. 8 The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary. 9 (context sports English) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization. 10 (context business marketing English) The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand. 11 The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular universe, including literary, film(,) or television series from various sources. 12 Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. 13 (context obsolete English) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. Etymology 2
v
1 (context transitive English) To confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize. 2 (context transitive rare English) To set free; invest with a franchise or privilege; enfranchise.
WordNet
n. an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area [syn: dealership]
a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) [syn: enfranchisement]
v. grant a franchise to
Wikipedia
Franchise is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the August 1955 issue of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and Robot Dreams (1986). It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. It is the first story in which Asimov dealt with computers as computers and not as immobile robots.
Franchise may refer to:
- Suffrage, the civil right to vote
- Jurisdictions used to be treated as property rights, and could be referred to as franchises.
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Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business, such as:
- Chain store, retail outlets which share a brand and central management
- Rail franchising in Great Britain
- Media franchise, ownership of the characters and setting of a film, video game, book, etc., particularly in North American usage
- A television franchise, a right to operate a television network.
- A cable franchise, a right to operate a cable television network.
- a clause used by insurance companies as a threshold for policy payments, as in deductible
- "Franchise" (short story), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov
- Dem Franchize Boyz, an American hip hop group from Atlanta
- Franchise Pictures, a film production company
In sport:
- Franchise, a term for a team in the type of professional sports league organization most commonly found in North America; see North American professional sports league organization
- Franchise player, a player on such a team around whom an entire competitive squad can be built
- Franchise tag, a designation of a player in the US National Football League whose contract is soon to expire that binds him to the team for one year at an enhanced salary
- League franchise, a local or regional business franchising operation under a particular sporting league in activities such as pool, darts, etc.
Usage examples of "franchise".
Swazieland, the indemnity for the Jameson Raid, and arbitration, in exchange for the Franchise, otherwise, I should have nothing.
From first appearance to arraignment to preliminary hearing and on to trial and then appeal, the franchise client demands hundreds if not thousands of billable hours.
Mr Boffin put down his treatise on the nature of Franchises, which he was studying in order that he might lead an opposition against the Ministry next Session, and even Sir Timothy Beeswax, who had done his work with Sir Orlando, joined the throng.
Maintenant, autre question a laquelle tu dois repondre avec la meme franchise: que penses-tu du duc de Naurouse?
Now you are about to have a convention which among other things will probably define the elective franchise.
With the prejudices which inspired the South,--prejudices made still more intense by the victory of the Union,--it was altogether certain that the Southern Conventions would not extend the elective franchise or civil right of any kind to the colored men of any class.
Only a minority of Republicans were ready to demand suffrage for those who had been recently emancipated, and who, from the ignorance peculiar to servitude, were presumably unfit to be intrusted with the elective franchise.
National interposition, but to reach it more effectively perhaps by excluding the entire colored population from the basis of Congressional representation, until by the action of the Southern States themselves the elective franchise should be conceded to the colored population.
State within this Union shall prescribe or establish any property qualifications which may or shall in any way abridge the elective franchise.
But whenever in any State the elective franchise shall be denied to any portion of its male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation in such State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of male citizens shall bear to the whole number of such male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age.
State among the citizens of the United States in the exercise of the elective franchise, or in the right to hold office in any State, on account of race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious creed.
Fifteenth Amendment, now proposed, did not attempt to declare affirmatively that the negro should be endowed with the elective franchise, but it did what was tantamount, in forbidding to the United States or to any State the power to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
While the National Government refrained from withholding the elective franchise from men who had fought to destroy the Union, there is no doubt that disabilities and exclusions were imposed upon large classes in certain States of the South.
The complaint of discontented people in the Southern States was that there had been too great an expansion of popular rights, too large an extension of the elective franchise.
The one safeguard against an evil so great was the restoration of self-government to the people who had rebelled, the broadening of the elective franchise, the abolition of caste and privilege.