(เอนแฟรน'ไชซ) vt. ให้สิทธิพิเศษ, ให้สิทธิในการเลือกตั้งผู้แทน, ให้สัมปทาน, ให้สิทธิเป็นผู้จำหน่ายแต่ผู้เดียว, ปล่อยให้เป็นอิสระ., See Also:enfranchisement n. ดูenfranchise enfranchiser n. ดูenfranchise, Syn.franchise.
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfranchised p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising ] [ Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir. ] 1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman; to give the right to vote. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]