nonfranchised

English

Etymology

non- +‎ franchised

Adjective

nonfranchised (not comparable)

1. Not franchised.
   • 2009 July 5, Walter Kirn, “Wasted Land”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Alternative forms

• non-franchised