| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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| (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
| affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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| affrication | (noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
| affront | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: insult |
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| (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
| afraid | (adjective) filled with fear or apprehension | - |
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| (adjective) filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement | - |
| (adjective) having feelings of aversion or unwillingness | - |
| (adjective) feeling worry or concern or insecurity | - |
| afresh | (adverb) again but in a new or different way | Synonyms: anew |
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| afropavo | (noun) both sexes are brightly colored | Synonyms: Afropavo congensis, Congo peafowl |
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| airframe | (noun) the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) | - |
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| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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| (adverb) outside a building | Synonyms: out of doors, outdoors, outside |
| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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| battlefront | (noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: front, front line |
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| beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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| belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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| (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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| (noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
| bullfrog | (noun) largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | Synonyms: Rana catesbeiana |
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| caffre | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, kaffir, kafir |
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| carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
| carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
| chamfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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| chanfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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| comfrey | (noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked | Synonyms: healing herb |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: cumfrey |
| confrere | (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, fellow |
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| confront | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: face, face up |
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| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: face, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: face |
| (verb) be face to face with | - |
| confrontation | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: opposition |
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| (noun) a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison | - |
| (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: encounter, face-off, showdown |
| (noun) a bold challenge | - |
| (noun) discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions | - |
| confrontational | (adjective) of or relating to confrontation | - |
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| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| defraud | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| defray | (verb) bear the expenses of | - |
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| defrayal | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayment, payment |
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| defrayment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, payment |
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| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| defrost | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, deice |
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| defroster | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: deicer |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| diffraction | (noun) when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands | - |
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| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disenfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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| disenfranchisement | (noun) the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise | - |
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| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| disfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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| disfranchisement | (noun) the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote | - |
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| doorframe | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorcase |
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| ecofriendly | (adjective) Good for the environment | - |
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| effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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| eggfruit | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: canistel |
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| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| enfranchised | (adjective) endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | - |
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| enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
| (noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
| forefront | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, vanguard |
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| (noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: head |
| fracas | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, altercation |
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| fracking | (noun) a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid | - |
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| fractal | (noun) (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry | - |
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| fraction | (noun) a small part or item forming a piece of a whole | - |
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| (noun) the quotient of two rational numbers | - |
| (noun) a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process | - |
| (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
| fractional | (adjective) constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety | Synonyms: partial |
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| (adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: divisional |
| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fractionation | (noun) separation into portions | - |
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| (noun) a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components | Synonyms: fractional process |
| fractious | (adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory |
| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| fractiously | (adverb) in a fractious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: peevishly, querulously |
| fractiousness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness |
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| fracture | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| fradicin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery | Synonyms: Neobiotic, neomycin |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| fragility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: delicacy |
| fragment | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: shard, sherd |
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| (noun) an incomplete piece | - |
| (noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else | - |
| (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
| fragmental | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmentary |
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| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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| fragmentation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, atomization |
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| (noun) the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk | - |
| (noun) the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships | - |
| fragmented | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, split |
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| fragmentise | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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| fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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| fragrance | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
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| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, perfume, scent |
| fragrancy | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, redolence, sweetness |
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| fragrant | (adjective) pleasant-smelling | - |
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| frail | (adjective) physically weak | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, fragile |
| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, imperfect, weak |
| (noun) a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) | - |
| (noun) the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds | - |
| frailness | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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| frailty | (noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: vice |
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| (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
| fraise | (noun) sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes | - |
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| (noun) a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century | - |
| frambesia | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: framboesia, yaws |
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| framboesia | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: frambesia, yaws |
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| framboise | (noun) the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange | Synonyms: European raspberry, Rubus idaeus, wild raspberry |
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| frame | (noun) one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: framing |
| (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe |
| (noun) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses | - |
| (noun) a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film | - |
| (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: framework |
| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning | Synonyms: frame of reference |
| (noun) a single drawing in a comic strip | - |
| (noun) an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently | - |
| (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: inning |
| (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: compose, draw up |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: border, frame in |
| (verb) construct by fitting or uniting parts together | Synonyms: frame up |
| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up |
| (verb) enclose in a frame, as of a picture | - |
| framed | (adjective) provided with a frame | - |
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| framer | (noun) someone who writes a new law or plan | - |
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| (noun) someone who makes frames (as for pictures) | - |
| framework | (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: frame |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: fabric |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: model, theoretical account |
| framing | (noun) formulation of the plans and important details | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: frame |
| franc | (noun) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes | - |
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| franchise | (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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| (noun) an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place | - |
| (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: dealership |
| (verb) grant a franchise to | - |