franchise

franchise has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
• n.. an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
• n.. a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
• v.. grant a franchise to