franchise

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  1. noun A privilege or right officially granted a person or a group by a government, especially:
  2. noun The constitutional or statutory right to vote.
  3. noun The establishment of a corporation's existence.

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  • Joel Schumacher's second go-round with the franchise is a bigger messy tangle than his first attempt with an unnecessarily overcrowded cast of characters, pointless scenes which have no place in the story (a street race with motorcycles is the nadir for the franchise), and atrocious acting from Silverstone (who's simply terrible) and Schwarzenegger (who struggles to wrap his Austrian accent around the endless lame quips and double entendres he's saddled with). —  Home Theater Forum
  • One good direction for the franchise was the new ballpark. —  Cincinnati Reds Blog
  • Quite a few [of the business ideas that Dane profiles] are franchise-based, which may not fit your definition of a startup idea (lets face it, a franchise is a system to apply someone else†™ s idea), but this is not exclusively a franchise site. —  Business Opportunities Weblog
  • One of the biggest benefits of owning a franchise is the marketing program, so keep that in mind as you make your franchise selection. —  Franchising.com
  • So you've done your research, you understand that buying a franchise is a serious business option and not one to be taken lightly, but how can you raise finance to buy that franchise in the current economic climate? —  Bytestart
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English fraunchise, from Old French franchise, from franche, feminine of franc, free, exempt; see frank1.

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  1. from Middle English franchise, fraunchise, fraunches, fraunchesse, freedom, privilege, generosity, from Old French franchise, French franchise, freedom, privileged liberty (= Provencal franquesa = Spanish Portuguese franqueza = Italian franchezza, freedom), from franc, free: see frank, a.
  2. from Middle English franchisen, fraunchisen, from Old French franchiss-, stem of certain parts of franchir, French franchir, render free, from franc, free: see frank, v. Cf. affranchise, disfranchise, enfranchise.
 

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/ˈfræntʃɪz/
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