franchise
专营权,专卖,选举权,专权
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- : a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- : the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.
- : a store, restaurant, or other business operating under such a license.
- : the territory over which such a license extends.
- : the right to vote: to guarantee the franchise of every citizen.
- : a privilege arising from the grant of a sovereign or government, or from prescription, which presupposes a grant.
- : Sports. the right to own or operate a professional sports team as a member of a league.a professional sports team.a player of great talent or popular appeal, considered vitally important to a team's success or future.
- : a set of creative works and related merchandise that share a fictional world, as films, television shows, books, or games:the Star Wars franchise; the Pokémon franchise.
- : a legal immunity or exemption from a particular burden, exaction, or the like.
- : Obsolete. freedom, especially from imprisonment, servitude, or moral restraint.
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fran·chised, fran·chis·ing.
- : to grant a franchise: The corporation has just franchised our local dealer.
- : enfranchise.
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If the only impression you have of Deadpool is Ryan Reynolds mouthing off in the movie franchise, do yourself a favor and pick up this 2012 series by Croatian comic genius Dalibor Talajic.
City spokespeople also couldn’t tell reporter MacKenzie Elmer what’s next for the franchise fee agreement immediately after the special Council meeting.
The Council won’t get to see the final franchise agreement before it goes out to market anyway, Council President Georgette Gómez said during the meeting.
The franchise agreement is considered San Diego’s most powerful leverage point against investor-owned utilities, and there’s really no standard for what the city can or can’t request.
“We’re definitely focused on creating franchises,” co-CEO Reed Hastings said on a call with investors last week.
Then, under the bold headline “Rebooting Spider-Man,” Robinov describes a broad vision for the future of the franchise.
Another angle Robinov suggests as a possibility for Peter Parker/Spider-Man is a franchise reboot tackling Spidey as… an adult.
The NFL cares about only one thing: protecting the 32 franchise owners.
More than the books, and they are greatly so, this is an action franchise.
The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime.
I am prepared to respect the franchise, to give substantially, although not nominally, equality.
Likewise, he owned the stage line and franchise, controlling the only right of way by which a railroad could reach up the valley.
Mr. O'Connell moved that it should be an instruction to the committee to restore the franchise to these freeholders.
In regard to the qualification of electors, he said it had been determined not to adhere to the parliamentary franchise.
On the 4th of July, however, the house went into committee upon clause twenty, which referred to the value of the franchise.