Word Finder - franchise

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The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage, suffragette.

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A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.

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An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.

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The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.

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McDonalds has exported its franchise.

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A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.

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A legal exemption from jurisdiction.

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The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.

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The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

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The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.

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The Whalers' home city of Hartford was one of many for the franchise.

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The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.

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The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular universe, including literary, film or television series from various sources.

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the Star Wars franchise

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Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

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Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

The franchise is somewhat wider than the parliamentary.

The franchise was extended to the towns.

The councils general are elected by universal suffrage of all citizens and those who, though not citizens, have been granted the political franchise.

In 1816 he was elected deputy, and spoke in favour of liberty of the press and extension of the franchise.

In the third Duma, elected on a restricted franchise, the Octobrists assumed the leading role.

The franchise is extended to all male taxpayers of twenty-five years of age and upwards.

From the time of its union with Russia at the Diet of Borga in 1809 till the events of 1899 (see History) Finland was practically a separate state, the emperor of Russia as grand-duke governing by means of a nominated senate and a diet elected on a very narrow franchise, and meeting at distant and irregular intervals.

He wanted to know why the Minister of Defense was not extending the franchise to the people in his care.

Taking the franchise to a whole new level is the full band kit.

The Indians whose names were " rightly contained " in the voters' rolls at the date of the act retain the franchise.

The electoral law was framed to prevent more than a very few natives obtaining the franchise.

The franchise is given to all adult white male British subjects.

It might have been expected that the concession of universal suffrage in the case of the House of Deputies would have led to the abolition of the class system of voting for the legislative bodies of the several territories and the introduction of an equal franchise, and also to the doing away with the three-class system of voting - established on the Prussian model - in the case of the election of municipal representatives.

In franchise mode, create an offensive lineman that is 45 years old.

Of course, Franchise mode is the bulk of the game.

The aristocratic council of the Areopagus constituted the chief criminal court, and nominated the magistrates, among whom the chief archon passed judgment in family suits, controlled admission to the genos or clan, and consequently the acquisition of the franchise.

The separate administration was, however, to be maintained, and the rescript did not promise that the new provincial diet would be more than a consultative assembly, elected on a strictly limited franchise.

The ancient constitution, often suspended and modified, based upon this charter, was reformed under the influence of Western Liberalism in 1848, the supremacy of the Magyar race, however, being secured by a somewhat narrow franchise.

Neither aliens nor coloured British subjects can exercise the franchise.

The island is administered by a governor, assisted by an executive council, a legislative council of 9 nominated members, and a house of assembly of 24 members elected on a limited franchise.

In 1864, in a debate on a private member's bill for extending the suffrage, he declared that the burden of proof lay on those " who would exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working-classes from the franchise."

In a more particular sense, "a liberty" is the term for a franchise, a privilege or branch of the crown's prerogative granted to a subject, as, for example, that of executing legal process; hence the district over which the privilege extends.

Its inhabitants received the Roman franchise at the same time with the rest of the Sabines (290 B.C.), but it appears as a praefectura and not as a municipium down to the beginning of the empire.

His support of Pitt's Reform Bill was qualified by a just dislike of the ministers' proposal to treat the possession of the franchise by a constituency as a property and not as a trust.

It consisted of two thousand delegates who demanded autonomy for the four governments of Vilna, Kovno, Grodno and Suvalki under a Diet at Vilna to be elected by universal, direct, equal and secret franchise.

The Tsar's Government under the electoral statute of 1905 granted the four-class franchise (landowners, peasants, townsmen and workmen) in such wise as to favour the rural population.

S netona President of the State, and composed the statute for the election of the Constituent Assembly by universal, equal, direct and secret franchise according to a proportional system based on d'Hondt's distributive principle which contains elaborate safeguards against the tyranny of the majority.

The local government is carried on by an elected municipal council, the franchise being restricted to white British subjects (men and women) who rent or own property of a certain value.

A celebrated debate on this question took place in the House of Commons in January 1690; but the evident intention of the Whigs to perpetuate their own ascendancy by tampering with the franchise contributed largely to the Tory reaction which resulted in the defeat of the Whigs in the elections of that year.

After the Social War (90-89 B.C.), when all Italy had received the Roman franchise, such prefectures ceased to exist in fact, though the name was sometimes retained.

Massachusetts had excluded the English Book of Common Prayer, she had restricted the franchise, laid the death penalty, on religious opinions, and passed various other laws repugnant to the Crown, notably to Charles II.

Bossiney acquired the right of electing two members of parliament in 1553, the franchise being originally vested in the freeholders within the borough.

By the middle of the 18th century the franchise had become restricted to the freemen or burgesses.

At Athens the franchise, jealously guarded at this period, was not to be attained without great expense and difficulty.

He was president of the Universal Israelite Alliance, and while in the government of the national dofence he secured the franchise for the Jews in Algeria.

These limitations worked unsatisfactorily, and their removal or modification and the extension of the franchise were the principal changes effected in 1821.

The franchise is adult suffrage, conditional on a previous residence in the colony for a year, including six months in the electoral district for which a claim to vote is registered.

On Ballance's sudden death in April 1893 his place was taken by Richard Seddon, minister of mines in the Ballance cabinet, whose first task was to pass the electoral bill of his predecessor, which granted the franchise to all adult women.

In 1898 also the municipal franchise, hitherto confined to ratepayers, was greatly widened; in 1900 the English system of compensation to workmen for accidents suffered in their trade was adopted with some changes, one of the chief being that contested claims are adjudicated upon cheaply and expeditiously by the same arbitration court that decides industrial disputes.

Free State revised its constitution in reference to the franchise law, and the period of residence necessary to obtain naturalization was reduced from five to three years.

The franchise, roadway, roadbed, rails and rolling stock of railways in more than one county are assessed at their full value by the state board of equalization.

He reformed the administration of the state canals, making the Canal Commission non-partisan; he introduced the merit system into many of the subordinate offices of the state; and he vigorously urged the passage of and signed the Ford Franchise Act (1899), taxing corporation franchises.

A new electoral law of the same year reformed the Saxon diet by abolishing the old distinction between the various " estates " and lowering the qualification for the franchise; the result was a Liberal majority in the Lower House and a period of civil and ecclesiastical reform.

So alarming did the growth appear, that the other parties combined, and on the 28th of March 1896 a new electoral law was passed, introducing indirect election and a franchise based on a triple division of classes determined by the amount paid in direct taxation.

This led to proposals for a slight modification in the franchise for the Saxon diet (1904), which were not accepted.

This was, however, far from satisfying the parties of the extreme Left, and the strength of Social Democracy in Saxony was even more strikingly displayed in 1909 when, in spite of plural voting, under a complicated franchise, 25 Socialist members were returned to the Saxon diet.

This was all the more probable owing to the fact that since the Constitution of 1867 there had been a certain analogy between the franchise for the Reichsrat, the Territorial Diets, and the elected commercial bodies.

Another instance is that of the County Franchise and Redistribution Bills of 1884-85.

Minister of public works in the first Depretis cabinet of 1876, and minister of the interior in the Cairoli cabinet of 1878, he in the latter capacity drafted the franchise reform, but created dissatisfaction by the indecision of his administrative acts, particularly in regard to the Irredentist agitation, and by his theory of repressing and not in any way preventing crime, which led for a time to a perfect epidemic of murders.

The chief towns are Algiers, the capital and principal seaport, with a population (1906), including Mustapha and other suburbs, of 154,049; Oran (100,499),' a western The figures given are not those of the communes, but of the towns proper, certain classes of persons (such as troops, lunatics, convicts) excluded from the municipal franchise not being counted.