Franchises is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRANCHISES in dictionary:

VERB:
• FRANCHISE, to grant a franchise to
• grant a franchise to (an individual or group)
• grant a franchise for the sale of (goods) or the operation of (a service)
NOUN:
• a business or service given a franchise to operate
• a general title or concept used for creating or marketing a series of products, typically films or television shows
• an authorization given by a league to own a sports team
• a professional sports team.
• a star player in a team.
• the right to vote in public elections
• the rights of citizenship
• an authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, for example acting as an agent for a company's products
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• freedom or immunity from some burden or restriction vested in a person or group

Words related to FRANCHISES

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How to use FRANCHISES in a sentence

• If some obtained certain franchises, these privileges were their ultimate ruin, owing to the ill faith of their nobles.
• In 1908 Michigan gave all women who pay taxes the right to vote upon questions of local taxation and the granting of franchises.
• Taxpayers to vote on question of local taxation and granting of franchises.
• This line, with all its rights and franchises, has been recently purchased by the Northern Pacific, and will greatly aid in supporting the main trunk when completed.
• In Parliament the towns often obtained justice and the maintenance of their franchises against the officers of the king.
• After Tewkesbury Edward paid the city another visit, and in return for its disloyalty seized its liberties and franchises, and only restored them for a fine of 500 marks.
• London, despite its pertinacity in rebellion, was to retain its ancient franchises.
• Nobles like David and Rhys found their franchises threatened by the encroachments of the neighbouring shire-courts.
• With English notions of the rights of the supreme power, the prince paid little attention to the franchises of either lord or prelate.
• It was alleged that mayors and councils had bargained away for private benefit street railway and other franchises.
• Many grants or franchises were made perpetual, or perhaps for a term of 999 years.
• The rates charged and services rendered were left largely to the will of the companies holding the franchises.
• In many states, about the same time, it was provided that no franchises to utility companies could run more than twenty-five years.
• The franchises were privileges of asylum, annexed not only to the ambassadors at Rome, but even to the whole district in which any ambassador chanced to live.
• The cause of complaint, the great cause is, that the inherent rights and franchises of the people are in this case invaded, trampled upon, annihilated.
• Republics of old perished by the conflicts of liberties and franchises, 815-m.
• He destroyed the old franchises of the city, for they were incompatible with that royal authority which he so earnestly strove to build.
• The first act does, in fact, if it can have any effect, create a new corporation, and transfer to it all the property and franchises of the old.
• The twelve individuals who are trustees were possessed of all the franchises and immunities conferred by the charter.
• It makes no difference, that this property is to be holden and administered, and these franchises exercised, for the purpose of diffusing learning.
• Whether the State will grant these franchises, and under what conditions it will grant them, it decides for itself.
• It declares a forfeiture, and resumes franchises, once granted, without trial or hearing.
• They take away privileges, immunities, and franchises.
• Corporate Franchises, power of Legislature over, limited, 6.
• These charters and franchises are granted sparingly in most European countries.
• A fourth kind is that derived from franchises for public service corporations, such as those supplying electricity, gas and water.
• These franchises are granted to private capitalists to induce them to invest capital in enterprises that are helpful to the community.
• That is, all exclusive franchises whereby rights in the streets, or other rights of the public, are given away to a corporation organized for purposes of gain.
• There were rumors of illicit bargains with the Supervisors for the granting of proposed new franchises.
• This is no doubt due, at least in part, to the difference in the respective franchises.
• It was carried on by the ordinary course of law, in courts instituted for the security of the property and franchises of the people.
• If it were in their power, the Chinese would cancel not merely the franchises of foreign settlements, but the treaty right of exemption from control by the local government.
• Franchises whose validity is subject to political attack, bring to the aid of the underworld some of the most powerful interests in the community.

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