"franchise" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to something (usually a business) that is owned or operated by a larger organization. For example: "The fast food restaurant is part of a national franchise."
This small idea has grown into a franchise and its approach has reinvigorated much of factual television.
Salmond continued to talk of multiple questions, but it was nothing more than a bargaining chip for the talks – a way to extract concessions from Cameron on other issues: the timing of the poll, the wording of the question, and the franchise.
In 18 months, a new franchise competition begins to run the services, potentially a moment at which upgrades will be ordered.
You've had the 15-second teaser – which told you absolutely nothing other than Jurassic World will feature dinosaurs – now you can watch the "proper" trailer for the latest film in the prehistoric franchise.
Any company could start a law business and tender for the local franchise for legal aid, to be provided by lawyers whose caseload will be so great, and whose pay so small, that doing what is right for the individual client is impossible, and justice becomes a conveyor belt from arrest to prison.
Blockbuster has roughly 3,500 remaining stores in the US, making it the country's last major DVD franchise – the rival chain Hollywood Video collapsed earlier this year.
But another Palestinian businessman, who owns some KFC and Pizza Hut franchises in the West Bank, is planning to open a restaurant within the walls and fences that surround the Gaza Strip, and a second application has been made for a KFC franchise in the tiny and crowded coastal territory.
Then he wisely attached himself to the slumping Fast/Furious franchise, a move that paid off earlier this year when the latest instalment coolly pounded a billion bucks out of the global box office.
That seems to have been the moment when Barclays abandoned its freshly-minted pledges about paying less and instead threw money at the would-be defectors to persuade them to stay (with only partial success) in order to "defend the franchise".
It also let pass without challenge a frankly insane franchise that cut out the third largest Scottish city on earth (London), and handed it to (splendid, but quite possibly over-optimistic) schoolchildren.
The Northern Rail private rail franchise deployed large numbers of transport police and security guards on the day.
