Franchise vs Universe - 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.
The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself; same as the Universe.
An entity similar to our Universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
Everything under consideration.
An imaginary collection of worlds.
Intense form of world in the sense of perspective or social setting.
As a noun franchise
is franchise.As a proper noun universe is
the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.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)universe
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Alternative forms
* Universe (dated or religious)Noun
(en noun)- I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity .
- In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
- The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
- That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe .