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

Word History and Origins

Origin of licence¹

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

Example Sentences

Watkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison with a further six years on licence, and his two co-defendants, the mothers of children he abused, were jailed for 14 and 17 years.

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MPs then have licence to protest and complain.

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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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