nonfranchised

alternative non-franchised

1. not comparableNot franchised.

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   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.

   2009 July 5, Walter Kirn, “Wasted Land”, in New York Times