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franchise

a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place

a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

grant a franchise to

Synonyms:

• Australian ballot,
• Hare system,
• affranchise,
• authorize,
• aye,
• ballot,
• blank check,
• brevet,
• canvass,
• canvassing,
• carte blanche,
• casting vote,
• certificate,
• certify,
• charter,
• concession,
• copyright,
• counting heads,
• cumulative voting,
• deciding vote,
• diploma,
• diplomatic immunity,
• discharge,
• dispensation,
• division,
• empower,
• enable,
• enfranchise,
• enfranchisement,
• entitle,
• exception,
• exemption,
• fagot vote,
• favor,
• female suffrage,
• freedom,
• give official sanction,
• give power,
• grant,
• graveyard vote,
• hand vote,
• household franchise,
• immunity,
• indulgence,
• legalize,
• legislative immunity,
• legitimize,
• letters patent,
• liberty,
• license,
• list system,
• manhood suffrage,
• nay,
• no,
• nontransferable vote,
• patent,
• permission,
• plebiscite,
• plebiscitum,
• plumper,
• plural vote,
• poll,
• polling,
• preferential voting,
• privilege,
• proportional representation,
• proxy,
• ratify,
• record vote,
• referendum,
• release,
• representation,
• right to vote,
• rising vote,
• royal grant,
• sanction,
• say,
• secret ballot,
• show of hands,
• single vote,
• snap vote,
• special favor,
• straw vote,
• suffrage,
• suffragette,
• suffragettism,
• suffragism,
• suffragist,
• the vote,
• transferable vote,
• universal suffrage,
• validate,
• viva voce,
• voice,
• voice vote,
• vote,
• voting,
• voting right,
• warrant,
• woman-suffragist,
• write-in,
• write-in vote,
• yea,
• yeas and nays,
• yes