successfully completed or brought to an end

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 brand name under which a series of products is released, A professional sports team, transitive verb_ To grant a franchise to, To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to, verb_ grant a franchise to

erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia

the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football