Freedom from political subjugation or servitude.

Roget 750: liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation; disenthrallment^†, disenthralment^†; affranchisement^†, enfranchisement; manumission; discharge, dismissal.    deliverance etc. 672; redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution; acquittal etc. 970; escape etc. 671.    ... show more

A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote).

synonym: franchise.

Roget 748: freedom, liberty, independence; license etc. (permission) 760; facility etc. 705.    scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall.    franchise, denization^†; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen.    autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference etc. 706; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.].    immunity, exemption; emancipation etc. (liberation) 750; enfranchisement, affranchisement^†.    free land, freehold; allodium^†; frankalmoigne [Fr.], mortmain [Fr.].    bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.    ... show more

The act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on.

synonym: certification.

Dutch: attestering
Polish: certyfikacja