franchiser

plural franchisers

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

   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.

   1982, William Least Heat-Moon [pseudonym; William Trogdon], Blue Highways, →ISBN, page 16

2. rareA person who has the right to vote.

   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!

   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)