franchiser

English

Etymology

franchise + -er

Noun

franchiser (plural franchisers)

  1. A franchisor, a company which or person who grants franchises.
    • 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:
      But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.
  2. (rare) A person who has the right to vote.
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
      No man oppresses thee, O free and independent Franchiser: but does not this stupid Porter-pot oppress thee? No Son of Adam can bid thee come or go; but this absurd Pot of Heavy-wet, this can and does!

Translations

French

Etymology

From franchise + -er, possibly a calque of English franchise.

Pronunciation

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Verb

franchiser

  1. (business) to franchise

Conjugation

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