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nouna business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
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nouna statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
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nounan authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular placetype of:
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verbgrant a franchise to
Definition that contains franchise
- franchise grant a franchise to
- certification the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on
- electorate the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote
- enfranchisement the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on
- disenfranchisement the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise
- disfranchisement the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
- grandfather clause an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War
- quo warranto a hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty