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Franchise may refer to:
Business and law
- Franchising, a business method that involves licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business to franchisees
- Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television provider, public utility, or taxicab company, sometimes requiring the filing of tariff schedules, as in:
- Television franchise, a right to operate a television network
- Cable franchise, a right to operate a cable television network
- Cable television franchise fee, an annual fee charged by a local government to a private cable television company
- Cable franchise, a right to operate a cable television network
- Television franchise, a right to operate a television network
- Franchise, a clause used by insurance companies as a threshold for policy payments, as in deductible
- Franchise, political franchise, or suffrage, the civil right to vote
- Franchise jurisdiction, in English history, a jurisdiction held as private property
- Franchise Pictures, a film production company
Arts, entertainment, and media
- "Franchise" (short story), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov
- Dem Franchize Boyz, an American hip hop group from Atlanta
- Franchise Times, a business magazine for franchises in the United States
- Media franchise, a collection of related creative works, such as films, video games, books, etc., particularly in North American usage
Sports
- Franchise, a term for a team in the type of professional sports league organization most commonly found in North America; see North American professional sports league organization
- Franchise player, a player on such a team around whom an entire competitive squad can be built
- Franchise tag, a designation of a player in the US National Football League whose contract is soon to expire that binds him to the team for one year at an enhanced salary
- Sports league franchise, or League franchise, a local or regional business franchising operation under a particular sporting league in activities such as pool, darts, etc.
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See also
- The Franchise (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Franchise
- All pages with titles containing Franchise
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