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frenchise

frenchise is the obsolete spelling of franchise.

Meaning of franchise

Noun

franchise (countable and uncountable, plural franchises)

  1. The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage.
  2. A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
    • a. 1872, William H. Seward, debate
      Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people.
  3. An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
  4. The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
    • McDonald’s has exported its franchise.
  5. A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
  6. A legal exemption from jurisdiction.

See all 16 meanings of franchise

Verb capitalized: Frenchise

Frenchise (third-person singular simple present Frenchises, present participle Frenchising, simple past and past participle Frenchised)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Frenchize.
    • These Advantages cannot now, it is true, be recoverd: An Emperor of Germany is now chosen, I shall not say legally chosen, by the Influence of France; the Empire is now full of French or Frenchised Armies; and the Queen of Hungary has been stript of a great Part of her Father's Dominions.1742 October, “Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Political Club”, in London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, page 474
    • That the bishop not being in the secret had acted with reserve and caution, and would do nothing without the queen's special commands; whereas the earl of Strafford not only was forward to venture and undertake any thing, as he expresses himself in one of his letters, to be the tool of a Frenchised...1811, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England

Forms of frenchise

Noun
pluralfrenchises
Verb
third-person singular presentFrenchises
present participleFrenchising
past participleFrenchised
pastFrenchised

Origin of frenchise

From french + -ise.

Questions about frenchise

What is frenchise the obsolete spelling of?
Frenchise is the obsolete spelling of franchise.
What part of speech is frenchise?
Frenchise is a verb.
What is the past tense of frenchise?
The past tense of frenchise is Frenchised.

Words near frenchise in the dictionary

  1. frenchifying
  2. Frenchiko
  3. Frenchily
  4. Frenchiness
  5. frenching
  6. frenchise
  7. Frenchised
  8. frenchises
  9. Frenchising
  10. Frenchism
  11. Frenchisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frenchise (page history and authors); Frenchise (page history and authors); franchise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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