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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..

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..

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..

Enfranchiser :: Enfranchiser (n.) One who enfranchises.

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..

Franchise :: Franchise (v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

Nonuser :: Nonuser () Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.

Diffranchisement :: Diffranchisement () See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement..

Infranchise :: Infranchise (v. t.) See Enfranchise.

Disenfranchise :: Disenfranchise (v. t.) To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.

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..

Franchisement :: Franchisement (n.) Release; deliverance; freedom.

Disfranchisement :: Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities..

Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words..

Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power..

Affranchisement :: Affranchisement (n.) The act of making free; enfranchisement.

Effranchise :: Effranchise (v. t.) To enfranchise.

Admit :: Admit (v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail..

Disfranchised :: Disfranchised (imp. & p. p.) of Disfranchis.

Franchise :: Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

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