Franchise vs Agreement - What's the difference?
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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.
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
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, title= (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
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An agreeable quality.
* 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
As nouns the difference between franchise and agreement
is that franchise is a right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government while agreement is an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.As a verb franchise
is to confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize.franchise
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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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Synonyms
* (business operating under franchise) franchiseeDerived terms
* franchisal * franchisee * franchise player * franchiser * franchise records * franchisorEtymology 2
From (etyl) franchisen, fraunchisen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(franchis)agreement
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Noun
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement . More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].