Synonym: dealership, enfranchisement. Similar words: ranch, branch, frankly, grandchild, rancor, entrance, tolerance, insurance. Meaning: ['fræntʃaɪz] n. 1. an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place 2. a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area 3. a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote). v. grant a franchise to.
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31 The California Department of Transportation negotiated franchise agreements with four private consortia to build toll highways.
32 The government mandates the franchise holder to supply all the electricity required by all users in the franchise area.
33 The franchise was later extended to any person over 18 years old.
34 You can start a fast-food franchise for a relatively modest outlay.
35 Margret Rey, who kept tight control over the vast franchise, died just before Christmas at the age of 90.
36 Ample precedents exist for imposing spectrum use fees and cable franchise taxes for public telecommunications purposes.
37 Franchise operations seem to provide a surprisingly large amount of luck to judge by their substantially better survival rates.
38 It is looking for a 60 year franchise that could be terminated by the Government at 10 year intervals.
39 He was greatly gratified by the seven turnovers the kids had, which is only one more than their franchise low.
40 The local government reforms following 1888 established new authorities with a franchise almost identical with the municipal boroughs.
41 Pressure for some parliamentary reform, with a redistribution of seats and a widening of the franchise, began to develop.
42 Similarly, franchise agreements are granted block exemption under Regulation 4087/88.
43 He joins the company from another major franchise holder in County Durham.
44 Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on, for example, rural or commuter routes?
45 Carlton which took over the London weekday franchise from Thames, already owns 20 percent of Central.
46 A detailed analysis of the sale of businesses operated under licence or franchise is outside the scope of this book.
47 Railtrack will own the infrastructure but the successful bidder for the franchise will run the trains.
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48 The Grand Forks City Council approved a transfer of the cable franchise recently to the partnership, which remains unnamed.
49 The Marlins come as close to being instant pudding as almost any professional franchise in history.
50 It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise.
51 All applicants for a franchise must successfully complete this training programme.
52 The award of a franchise to an entirely new company, from scratch, was thus the extreme case.
53 To Quebec, where the International Hockey League already has staked out an expansion franchise but could change its minds.
54 In Atlanta, the Marlins dominated a team that won 101 games and became the first franchise to reach six straight postseasons.
55 Diagnosis and treatment were in the hands of the medical experts who held the franchise on knowledge.
56 It is normal for the franchisor to charge the franchisee an advertising levy for promoting the product and the franchise.
57 This franchise will never have another second baseman as talented as Roberto Alomar.
58 Videopics is presently training franchise holders in a Christmas promotion of personalised T-shirts for teddy bears.
59 If not, some franchise will have to take a leap of faith.
60 In addition, TeleWest says that it is in negotiation with other cable franchise holders on possible interconnection of their networks.