Noun

• S: (n) franchise (an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place)
• S: (n) franchise, dealership (a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area)
• S: (n) franchise, enfranchisement (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))

Verb

• S: (v) franchise (grant a franchise to)
• domain category
• S: (n) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) license, licence, certify (authorize officially) "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
• S: (v) franchise (grant a franchise to)
• S: (v) charter (grant a charter to)
• S: (v) accredit, recognize, recognise (grant credentials to) "The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution"; "recognize an academic degree"
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) franchise [Related to: franchise] (a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area)
• W: (n) franchise [Related to: franchise] (an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place)
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• Somebody ----s somebody