Series vs. Franchise — What's the Difference?

A number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.

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

A set of stamps, coins, or currency issued in a particular period.

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.

Physics & Chemistry A group of objects related by linearly varying successive differences in form or configuration

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

(Mathematics) The sum of a sequentially ordered finite or infinite set of terms.

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

(Geology) A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.

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

(Grammar) A succession of coordinate elements in a sentence.

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

A succession of publications that present an extended narrative, such as a comic book series, or that have similar subjects or similar formats, such as a series of cookbooks.

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

A succession of individual programs presented as parts of a unified whole, such as the set of episodes of a television show or a podcast.

A professional sports team.

(Sports) A number of games played by the same two teams, often in succession.

To grant a franchise to.

(Baseball) The World Series.

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

(Linguistics) A set of vowels or diphthongs related by ablaut, as in sing, sang, sung, and song.

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

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.

(broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

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

(mathematics) The sequence of partial sums $\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\{a\_i\}$ of a given sequence a_i.

A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.

A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

A legal exemption from jurisdiction.

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.

(botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

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

(commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

(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.

(phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

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

(electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit, in series.

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.

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

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

In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.

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

An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

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

A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; - opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

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.

Similar things placed in order or happening one after another;

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

A serialized set of programs;

Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.

A periodical that appears at scheduled times

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

(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams;

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

A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection;

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

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

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

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other;

Grant a franchise to