franchisein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
franchise as in: franchise business
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She saved for years and then purchased a franchise that sells sandwiches.
franchise = the right to do business under a brand name
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Normally an officer of his rank wouldn't get involved in such a silly case, but the company building the pancake franchise had some clout with local politicians. (source)franchise = a company that does business under another company's name and uses many of their systems
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Bullheads distinguishing civic feature is the Mohave Valley Highway, four lanes of asphalt lined with gas stations and fast-food franchises, chiropractors and video shops, auto-parts outlets and tourist traps.† (source)
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We passed a few more franchises — smiling chickens offering platters of their own fried body parts, a grinning Mexican wielding tacos.† (source)
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A few blocks later, I ducked into a Vend-All franchise.† (source)
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They had been some of my less successful prophetic franchises.† (source)
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It obtained properties and leased them to franchisees with at least a 40 percent markup.† (source)
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In 1978 Congress passed the first federal legislation to regulate franchising.† (source)
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When a contract is terminated, the franchisee can lose his or her entire investment.† (source)
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Furthermore, our franchised citizens are not everywhere a small fraction; you know or should know that the percentage of citizens among adults ranges from over eighty per cent on Iskander to less than three per cent in some Terran nations yet government is much the same everywhere.† (source)
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They're copying some kind of golf-course franchise that works out West.† (source)
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There are no NeoAquarian Temple franchises in the Sacrifice Zone.† (source)
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New franchisees had to start their lives anew with just one McDonald's restaurant.† (source)
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Advocates of franchising have long billed it as the safest way of going into business for yourself.† (source)
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franchise as in: franchise to vote
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At that time, the franchise was limited to male property owners.
franchise = right to vote
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"Through all the ages," he said, "the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiterevery form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation-every form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squadhave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection.† (source)disfranchisement = the lack of or taking of a privilege (by a government)standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disfranchisement reverses the meaning of franchisement. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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Had the Michigan sergeant lived to witness the North's retreat from Reconstruction in the 1870s and the South's disfranchisement and formalized segregation of blacks in the 1890s, he might have wondered whether the abolition of slavery had revolutionized everything after all.† (source)
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The South must be kept down and disfranchisement of the whites was one way to keep the South down.† (source)
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But few have pretended that the present movement for disfranchisement in the South is for such a purpose; it has been plainly and frankly declared in nearly every case that the object of the disfranchising laws is the elimination of the black man from politics.† (source)disfranchisement = the lack of or taking of a privilege (by a government)standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disfranchisement reverses the meaning of franchisement. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.† (source)
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Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation — in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.† (source)
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The disfranchisement of the Negro.† (source)
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So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchised, and allegiance clear, I shall be counselled. (source)franchised = free
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