A person or company that is granted a franchise to operate a business using another company's brand, methods, and support.
From 'franchise' + '-ee' (suffix indicating recipient, from Old French). The '-ee' suffix creates nouns for people who receive something, contrasting with '-er' for people who give.
The suffix '-ee' is special because it's one of the few English suffixes borrowed from French, which is why we have franchisee (receiver) versus franchisor (giver)—language borrowed French's way of making these distinctions!
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