franchise English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).
Noun
A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
* W. H. Seward
- Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people.
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.
- McDonalds has exported its franchise .
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.
- Churches and monasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.
(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.
- The Whalers' home city of Hartford was one of many for the franchise .
(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.
- the Star Wars franchise
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
- (Spenser)
(obsolete) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
- (Chaucer)
Synonyms
* (business operating under franchise) franchisee
Derived terms
* franchisal
* franchisee
* franchise player
* franchiser
* franchise records
* franchisor
Etymology 2
From (etyl) franchisen, fraunchisen, from (etyl) . More at (l).
Verb
(franchis)
To confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize.
(rare) To set free; invest with a franchise or privilege; enfranchise.
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purchase English
Noun
(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .
An individual item one has purchased.
The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- He was pleased with his latest purchase .
(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- (Blackstone)
Derived terms
* purchase order
* repurchase
Verb
( purchas)
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
* Spenser
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
* Shakespeare
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
* Shakespeare
- His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .
To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
* Shakespeare
- One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
* Shakespeare
- Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.
- to purchase a cannon
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
* Ld. Berners
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- ''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution
Synonyms
* (buy) procure
Derived terms
* purchable
* purchasing agent
* purchasing power
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