nonfranchised

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English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ franchised.

Adjective

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nonfranchised (not comparable)

  1. Not franchised.
    • 2009 July 5, Walter Kirn, “Wasted Land”, in New York Times[1]:
      The book, wrought from old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting of a type that’s disappearing faster than nonfranchised lunch counters on Main Street, isn’t chiefly a tale of drugs and crime, of dysfunction and despair, but a recession-era tragedy scaled for an “Our Town,” Thornton Wilder stage and seemingly based on a script by William S. Burroughs.

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