franchiser

English

Etymology

franchise +‎ -er

Noun

franchiser (plural franchisers)

1. A franchisor, a company which or person who grants franchises.
   • 1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16:

     But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.

2. (rare) A person who has the right to vote.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

     No man oppresses thee, O free and independent Franchiser: but does not this stupid Porter-pot oppress thee? No Son of Adam can bid thee come or go; but this absurd Pot of Heavy-wet, this can and does!

Translations

franchisor — see franchisor

person who has the right the vote

• Finnish: äänioikeutettu (fi)

French

Etymology

From franchise +‎ -er, possibly a calque of English franchise.

Pronunciation

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Verb

franchiser

1. (business) to franchise

Conjugation

Conjugation of franchiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	franchiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	franchisant /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		franchisé /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	franchise /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	franchises /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	franchise /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	franchisons /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɔ̃/	franchisez /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.ze/	franchisent /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/
	imperfect	franchisais /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɛ/	franchisais /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɛ/	franchisait /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɛ/	franchisions /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zjɔ̃/	franchisiez /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zje/	franchisaient /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɛ/
	past historic2	franchisai /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.ze/	franchisas /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.za/	franchisa /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.za/	franchisâmes /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zam/	franchisâtes /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zat/	franchisèrent /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɛʁ/
	future	franchiserai /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁe/	franchiseras /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁa/	franchisera /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁa/	franchiserons /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁɔ̃/	franchiserez /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁe/	franchiseront /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	franchiserais /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁɛ/	franchiserais /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁɛ/	franchiserait /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁɛ/	franchiserions /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	franchiseriez /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zə.ʁje/	franchiseraient /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	franchise /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	franchises /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	franchise /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	franchisions /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zjɔ̃/	franchisiez /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zje/	franchisent /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/
	imperfect2	franchisasse /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zas/	franchisasses /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zas/	franchisât /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.za/	franchisassions /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.za.sjɔ̃/	franchisassiez /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.za.sje/	franchisassent /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	franchise /fʁɑ̃.ʃiz/	—	franchisons /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.zɔ̃/	franchisez /fʁɑ̃.ʃi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).