FRANCHISEMENT Antonyms

• the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)

• the act of asserting that something alleged is not true

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts

• renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• deprive of voting rights

• the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise

• unfitness that bars you from participation

• the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified

• the state of being excluded

• the state of being excommunicated

• a deliberate act of omission

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

• a decree that prohibits something

• the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

• refusal to approve or assent to

• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

• a state of forcible subjugation

• (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

• the act of repressing; control by holding down

• a principle that limits the extent of something

• an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

• the failure to develop some part or organ

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires