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licence

[lahy-suhns]

noun

  1. Chiefly British.,  a variant of license.



licence

/ ˈlaɪsəns /

noun

  1. a certificate, tag, document, etc, giving official permission to do something

  2. formal permission or exemption

  3. liberty of action or thought; freedom

  4. intentional disregard of or deviation from conventional rules to achieve a certain effect

    poetic licence

  5. excessive freedom

  6. licentiousness

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of licence1

C14: via Old French and Medieval Latin licentia permission, from Latin: freedom, from licet it is allowed
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Example Sentences

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Elsewhere in the UK, Scotland requires a licence to operate, with similar plans under way in Wales.

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After the sanctions came into force Thursday morning, NIS said it "had not yet been granted an extension of the special licence from the United States Department of the Treasury".

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John Waddington Limited of Leeds secured the European licence to make the game in 1935 - following its original release in the US - and Monopoly was manufactured in the city up until the 1990s.

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In 2017, ministers allowed offenders who had been released on licence the right to vote - but made clear that Parliament would never allow votes for criminals still in prison cells.

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Its current CEO Stephen Rue is facing similar calls to step down, and some lawmakers have also asked for Optus to be stripped of its operating licence.

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