A company which, or a person who, grants franchises.

The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage, suffragette. / A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.

(transitive) To confer certain powers on; grant a franchise to; authorize. / (transitive, rare) To set free; invest with a franchise or privilege; enfranchise.

A small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress.

(cycle racing) An annual long-distance cycling race through France and other European countries.

Consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered. / (geology) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.

Pertaining to a fraction. / Divided; fragmentary; incomplete. / Very small; minute. / (chemistry) Relating to a process or product of fractional distillation.

(grammar) An expression of a fractional number.

(chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of fraternization

Any kind of sexual relations between two or more individuals.