Franchise
['fræn(t)ʃaɪz] or ['fræntʃaɪz]
Definition
(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).
(noun.) an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place.
(noun.) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area.
(verb.) grant a franchise to.
Inputed by Frieda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
(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.
(a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
(a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
(v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
Inputed by Cherie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Right, privilege.[2]. Immunity, exemption.
Checked by Elaine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Freedom, immunity, exemption, right
ANT:Obligation, disability, jurisdiction, liability, disqualification
Typist: Sophie
Definition
n. liberty: a privilege or exemption belonging to a subject by prescription or conferred by grant: the right of voting for a member of Parliament.—v.t. to enfranchise: to give one the franchise.—ns. Fran′chisement (Spens.) freedom release; Fran′chiser one who has the franchise.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- For the Third Estate the franchise was very wide, nearly every tax-payer of twenty-five having a vote. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An autocracy would no doubt have been admissible as a fully self-governing democracy with a franchise limited to one person. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They gave what was for the time, and in view of American conditions, a very wide franchise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was no bar to a limited franchise and no provision for any direct control by the people of any state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- About all the upper houses there was therefore a flavour of selectness; they were elected on a more limited franchise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A franchise having been obtained from the city, the work of laying the underground conductors began in the late fall of 1881, and was pushed with almost frantic energy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checked by Harlan