Franchisement vs. Release — What's the Difference?

Release; deliverance; freedom

To set free from confinement or bondage

Release; deliverance; freedom.

To set free from physical restraint or binding; let go

To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement

To make available for use

To set free from obligations, commitments, or debt

To relieve of care or suffering

To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution

To make known or available

(Law) To surrender (a right, claim, or title).

Deliverance or liberation, as from confinement.

Discharge from an obligation or commitment.

Relief from suffering or care.

An unfastening or letting go, as of something caught or held fast.

(Sports) The action of throwing a ball or propelling a puck

(Linguistics) The movement of a vocal organ or organs so as to end the closure of a stop consonant.

A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism.

The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution.

Something thus issued

The condition of being available, in use, or in publication

The surrender of a right, title, or claim, especially to one against whom the right, title, or claim would be enforced or exercised.

The document attesting to such surrender.

The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).

(software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.

Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).

That which is released, untied or let go.

(legal) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.

Liberation from pain or suffering.

(biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.

The act or manner of ending a sound.

In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.

A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.

A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.

The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.

The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken

Orgasm.

(music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.

To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

To make available to the public.

To free or liberate; to set free.

To discharge.

(telephone) of a call To hang up.

(legal) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.

(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity

(biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.

(intransitive) to come out; be out.

(transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.

To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.

The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.

Relief from care, pain, or any burden.

Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.

A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required;

The act or manner of ending a sound.

In the block-signaling system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.

Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film);

The act of liberating someone or something

A process that liberates or discharges something;

An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Euphemistic expressions for death;

A legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

Activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion;

The act of allowing a fluid to escape

A formal written statement of relinquishment

(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

Release, as from one's grip;

Grant freedom to; free from confinement

Let (something) fall or spill a container;

Eliminate (substances) from the body

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;

Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids;

Make (information) available publication;

Part with a possession or right;

Make (assets) available;