franchise
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)franchises
- an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular placeType of concession, grant
- a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular areaSynonyms: dealershipType of business, concern
- 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: enfranchisementType of legal rightKinds right to vote, vote
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Translations
Noun licence to sell a company's goods
- Spanish
- franquicia
- French
- franchise
- German
- Franchise
- Portuguese
- franquia
- Russian
- франши́за franšíza
- Japanese
- フランチャイズ furanchaizu
- Dutch
- franchise
- Polish
- ajencja
- Swedish
- franchise
- Portuguese (PT)
- franquia
3 more languages
- Catalan
- franquícia
- Finnish
- luvake
- Scottish Gaelic
- còir
Noun right to vote at a public election
- French
- droit de vote
- Turkish
- oy hakkı
- Hungarian
- választójog
- Finnish
- äänioikeus
- Scottish Gaelic
- còir
- Welsh
- etholfraint
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., fr. franc, fem. franche, free. See Frank, adjective
1. Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. obsolete Edmund Spenser
2. 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.— William 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 Encyclopædia
4. Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. “Franchise in woman.” obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers.
Origin: Cf. OF. franchir to free, F., to cross.
To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54