Definition of franchise

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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..

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Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.
Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
Franchisement :: Franchisement (n.) Release; deliverance; freedom.
Free :: Free (superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
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..
Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe..
Infranchise :: Infranchise (v. t.) See Enfranchise.
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..
Disenfranchise :: Disenfranchise (v. t.) To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.
Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power..
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..
Enfranchiser :: Enfranchiser (n.) One who enfranchises.
Buddhism :: Buddhism (n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, the awakened or enlightened, in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest
Nonuser :: Nonuser () Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.
Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls..
Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words..
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..
Disfranchisement :: Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities..
Suffrage :: Suffrage (n.) The right to vote; franchise.
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