Franchise may refer to:
Business and law
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Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business to franchisees
* Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television provider, public utility, or taxicab company, sometimes requiring the filing of
tariff schedules, as in:
** Television franchise, a right to operate a
television network
*** Cable franchise, a right to operate a
cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...
network
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Cable television franchise fee, an annual fee charged by a local government to a private cable television company
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Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain, a system of contracting out the operation of the
passenger services
In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often kno ...
on the
railways of Great Britain
* Franchise, a clause used by insurance companies as a threshold for policy payments, as in
deductible
* Franchise, political franchise, or
suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in representative democracy, public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally i ...
, the civil right to vote
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Franchise jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels.
Jur ...
, in English history, a jurisdiction held as private property
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Franchise Pictures, a film production company
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Media franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or ...
, a collection of related creative works, such as films, video games, books, etc., particularly in North American usage
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"Franchise" (short story), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov
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Dem Franchize Boyz, an American hip hop group from Atlanta
* ''
Franchise Times'', a business magazine for franchises in the United States
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"Franchise" (song), a 2020 song by Travis Scott
Education
* Franchised
School
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compu ...
, school which operates as franchise
Sports
* Franchise, a term for a team in the type of professional sports league organization most commonly found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
; see
North American professional sports league organization
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Franchise player, a player on such a team around whom an entire competitive squad can be built
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Franchise tag, a designation of a player in the US
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ma ...
whose contract is soon to expire that binds them to the team for one year at an enhanced salary
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Sports league franchise, or League franchise, a local or regional business franchising operation under a particular sporting league in activities such as pool, darts, etc.
See also
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The Franchise (disambiguation) The Franchise is another name for suffrage.
The Franchise may also refer to:
* The Franchise (band), a rock band from Washington D.C.
* ''The Franchise'' (novel), 1983
* ''The Franchise'' (TV series), a television show on Showtime
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