Franchise

(noun.) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote).

(noun.) an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place.

(noun.) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area.

(verb.) grant a franchise to.

弗里达编辑

• For the Third Estate the franchise was very wide, nearly every tax-payer of twenty-five having a vote. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• An autocracy would no doubt have been admissible as a fully self-governing democracy with a franchise limited to one person. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They gave what was for the time, and in view of American conditions, a very wide franchise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There was no bar to a limited franchise and no provision for any direct control by the people of any state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• About all the upper houses there was therefore a flavour of selectness; they were elected on a more limited franchise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A franchise having been obtained from the city, the work of laying the underground conductors began in the late fall of 1881, and was pushed with almost frantic energy. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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