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noun
A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
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About one in 12 retail businesses is franchised, according to the International Franchise Association, an industry group in Washington.
Their most recent venture, the one in Dobbs Ferry, is franchised to Barbara Antes, an American nurse, entrepreneur and dancer from Pleasantville.
Recently sold to multinational Unilever for an undisclosed but plainly comfortable sum, T2 now employs more than 700 staff worldwide, and is franchised in New Zealand, the UK and US.
If you want something made, you can talk to the different people about costumes and whatever – you can't do that at the BBC, say, because everything is franchised out.
"Vermont has a reputation for its rigorous permitting process," said Jay Canning, a local hotel developer and operator and one of the owners of the hotel, which is franchised by the Marriott Corporation.
In Europe, he said, only 16percentt of food distribution is franchised, and in some major markets, like Italy, as little as 5percentt, compared with more than 50percentt in the United States.
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The pubs have been franchised, scrubbed into conformity.
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