Franchise vs. Chain — What's the Difference?

A privilege or right granted by law, especially the right to vote in the election of public officials.

A chain is a serial assembly of connected pieces, called links, typically made of metal, with an overall character similar to that of a rope in that it is flexible and curved in compression but linear, rigid, and load-bearing in tension. A chain may consist of two or more links.

A special privilege given by government to a corporation or an individual to engage in a particular activity using public facilities, especially to provide a public service such as transportation or communications.

A series of linked metal rings used for fastening or securing something, or for pulling loads

The establishment of a corporation, including the granting of certain privileges such as exemption from individual liability for the acts of the corporation.

A sequence of items of the same type forming a line

Authorization granted to someone to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a certain area.

A jointed measuring line consisting of linked metal rods.

A business or group of businesses established or operated under such authorization.

A structure of planks projecting horizontally from a sailing ship's sides abreast of the masts, used to widen the basis for the shrouds.

A brand name under which a series of products is released.

Fasten or secure with a chain

The territory or limits within which immunity, a privilege, or a right may be exercised.

A connected, flexible series of links, typically of metal, used especially for holding objects together, for restraining, or for transmitting mechanical power.

A professional sports team.

Such a set of links, often of precious metal and with pendants attached, worn as an ornament or symbol of office.

To grant a franchise to.

Often chains(Football) Such a set of links measuring ten yards and attached to a pole at each end, moved up and down the field to indicate necessary yardage for gaining a first down.

The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage, suffragette.

A restraining or confining agent or force.

A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.

Bonds, fetters, or shackles.

An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.

Captivity or oppression; bondage

The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.

A series of closely linked or connected things

A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.

A number of establishments, such as stores, theaters, or hotels, under common ownership or management.

A legal exemption from jurisdiction.

A range of mountains.

The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.

(Chemistry) A series of chemically bonded atoms, especially carbon atoms, which may be arranged in an open, branched, or cyclic structure.

The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

An instrument used in surveying, consisting of 100 linked pieces of iron or steel and measuring 66 feet (20.1 meters). Also called Gunter's chain.

(sports) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.

A similar instrument used in engineering, measuring 100 feet (30.5 meters).

The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.

Abbr. ch A unit of measurement equal to the length of either of these instruments.

The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular fictional universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources, generally when all authorized by a copyright holder or similar authority.

To bind or make fast with a chain or chains

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

To restrain or confine as if with chains

(obsolete) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.

(transitive) To confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize.

A series of interconnected things.

To set free; invest with a franchise or privilege; enfranchise.

A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

(chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.

A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an immunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.

(surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.

The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

(surveying) A long measuring tape.

Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.

To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.

An authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place

(British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).

A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.

A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

Grant a franchise to

A livery collar, a chain of office.

(weaving) The warp threads of a web.

(transitive) To fasten something with a chain.

(figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings

(intransitive) To link multiple items together.

(transitive) To secure someone with fetters.

(transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.

(figurative) To obligate.

(computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.

(computing) To be chained to another data item.

(transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.

To load and automatically run (a program).

A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.

That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.

A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.

An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

The warp threads of a web.

To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.

To keep in slavery; to enslave.

To unite closely and strongly.

To measure with the chain.

To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

A series of things depending on each other as if linked together;

(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

A series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

A number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership

Anything that acts as a restraint

A unit of length

British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

A series of hills or mountains;

Metal shackles; for hands or legs

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

Connect or arrange into a chain by linking

Fasten or secure with chains;