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FRANCHISE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
Synonyms:
enfranchisement; franchise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("franchise" is a kind of...):
legal right (a right based in law)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "franchise"):
right to vote; suffrage; vote (a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("franchise" is a kind of...):
concession; grant (a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business)
Derivation:
franchise (grant a franchise to)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
Synonyms:
dealership; franchise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("franchise" is a kind of...):
business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)
Derivation:
franchise (grant a franchise to)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they franchise ... he / she / it franchises
Past simple: franchised
Past participle: franchised
-ing form: franchising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grant a franchise to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "franchise" is one way to...):
certify; licence; license (authorize officially)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
franchise (an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place)
franchise (a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area)
