franchise: [13] Originally, franchise meant ‘freedom’ (as it still does in French today): ‘We will for our franchise fight and for our land’, Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle 1297. Gradually, though, it became more specialized in sense, narrowing down via ‘particular legal privilege’ to (in the 18th century) ‘right to vote’. It comes from Old French franchise, a derivative of franc ‘free’ (whence English frank). => frank
franchise (n.)
c. 1300, fraunchise, "a special right or privilege (by grant of a sovereign or government);" also "national sovereignty; nobility of character, generosity; the king's authority; the collective rights claimed by a people or town or religious institution," also used of the state of Adam and Eve before the Fall, from Old French franchise "freedom, exemption; right, privilege" (12c.), from variant stem of franc "free" (see frank (adj.)).
From late 14c. as "freedom; not being in servitude; social status of a freeman;" early 15c. as "citizenship, membership in a community or town; membership in a craft or guild." The "special right" sense narrowed 18c. to "particular legal privilege," then "right to vote" (1790). From mid-15c. as "right to buy or sell," also "right to exclude others from buying or selling, a monopoly;" meaning "authorization by a company to sell its products or services" is from 1959.
franchise (v.)
late 14c., "to make free," from Old French franchiss-, past participle stem of franchir "to free" (12c.), from franc "free" (see frank (adj.)). Franchising is from 1570s; the commercial licensing sense is from 1966. Related: Franchisee; franchiser; franchisor.
雙語例句
1. The diving school has acquired a franchise for scuba equipment.
潛水學校獲得潛水用水肺的特許經營權.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.
學校餐飲服務以特許權經營.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.
美國于1920年給婦女以參政權.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. The 1867 Reform Act extended the franchise to much of the male working class.
《1867年改革法》擴大了選舉權的范圍，使多數男性工人都擁有了該權利。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Talk to other franchise holders and ask them what they think of the parent company.