Definition of franchise

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Franchise (a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary..

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Charter :: Charter (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges..
Franchisement :: Franchisement (n.) Release; deliverance; freedom.
Nonuser :: Nonuser () Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.
Enfranchiser :: Enfranchiser (n.) One who enfranchises.
Tenement :: Tenement (n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements..
Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words..
Free :: Free (superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
Disenfranchise :: Disenfranchise (v. t.) To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.
Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.
Effranchise :: Effranchise (v. t.) To enfranchise.
Enfranchised :: Enfranchised (imp. & p. p.) of Enfranchis.
Franchise :: Franchise (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..
Infranchise :: Infranchise (v. t.) See Enfranchise.
Suffrage :: Suffrage (n.) The right to vote; franchise.
Citizen :: Citizen (n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises..
Diffranchise :: Diffranchise () Alt. of Diffranchisemen.
Disfranchise :: Disfranchise (v. t.) To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc..
Railway :: Railway (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver..
Affranchisement :: Affranchisement (n.) The act of making free; enfranchisement.
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