franchise

1. 1.

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

   Broaderconcession
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsdealership

   Broaderbusiness
3. 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)

   Synonymsenfranchisement

   Broaderlegal right

   Narrowerright to vote

   law

1. 1.

   grant a franchise to

   Broaderlicense

   commerce

Other forms of franchise

plural

franchises·

past tense

franchised·

present participle

franchising·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about franchise

What does franchise mean?

franchise means "an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in franchise?

franchise has 2 syllables: fran-chise. The stress falls on "fran". In IPA it is /ˈfɹænˌtʃaɪz/.

What is another word for franchise?

Close synonyms include dealership, enfranchisement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is franchise a common word?

franchise is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with franchise?

2 words rhyme with franchise. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.