Authority vs Franchise - What's the difference?
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(label) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(label) Persons in command; specifically, government.
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A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
* W. H. Seward
An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
A legal exemption from jurisdiction.
The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.
The right to vote at a public election.
The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
* London Encyc.
(sports) 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.
(business, marketing) 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.
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
(obsolete) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
To confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize.
(rare) To set free; invest with a franchise or privilege; enfranchise.
Authority is a related term of franchise.
As nouns the difference between authority and franchise
is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while franchise is franchise.authority
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Alternative forms
* authourity (obsolete)Noun
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
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- To punish me for my contempt of authority', Fate has made me an ' authority myself.
Derived terms
* moral authorityStatistics
* English terms derived from Latinfranchise
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people.
- McDonalds has exported its franchise .
- Churches and monasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.
- The Whalers' home city of Hartford was one of many for the franchise .
- the Star Wars franchise
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