license
noun
formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
had licensed
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past perfectof license.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By 1980, the government had licensed less than 5% of the patents it held — leaving potentially lifesaving inventions on the shelf.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury, said it had licensed the brand to Freshstores Limited, which runs the Cadbury discount store "completely independently".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024
Washington state had licensed its first woman architect in 1923, and in 1953, I would be only the eighth.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Within two months of Stable Diffusion’s August 2022 debut, it had more than 1 million users, and 200,000 developers had licensed the software to make their own image-creation apps and tools.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2023
He also desired it might be understood, that trading with spirits to the extent which he found practised was strictly forbidden to others, as well as to those who had licensed public houses.
