driver's license

noun

1. a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.

Word History and Origins

Origin of driver's license¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

The BlackFly can be mastered by almost anyone with just a few days’ training—roughly comparable to the requirements for a driver’s license.

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By virtue of its human-factors engineering and flight-control automation, the BlackFly can be mastered by almost anyone with a few days’ training, roughly comparable to the requirements for a driver’s license.

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More than half also didn’t have a driver’s license.

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More than half didn’t have a driver’s license.

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A crackdown on non-domiciled commercial driver’s license holders and enforcement of English language proficiency could each represent a 5% impact in the U.S. driver population.

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