franchise
— Noun
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~ an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
franchise
— Noun
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~ a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
franchise
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~ a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
Francis Crick
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~ English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
Francis Beaumont
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~ English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616)
Francis Drake
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~ English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Francis Ferdinand
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~ archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)
Francis Bacon
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~ English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
Franciscan
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~ of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him; "Franciscan monks"
franciscan
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~ a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
Francisella
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~ a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
francium
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~ a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium
Franck
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~ United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)