license plate

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noun

a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.

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Origin of license plate

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby license plate

license, licensed aircraft engineer, licensed practical nurse, licensed vocational nurse, licensee, license plate, licensor, licensure, licentiate, licentious, licentiousness

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How to use license plate in a sentence

Chula Vista Police Chief Roxana Kennedy did not know that her own department shared license plate reader data with federal immigration officials for the last three years.
Chula Vista Police Chief Says She Didn’t Know Department Shared Data With Feds|Gustavo Solis|January 20, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Palantir sells software that can analyze criminal records, gang member databases, license plates, social media archives and jailhouse telephone records to calculate the likelihood someone will commit a violent crime in the future.
Lessons From the Year in Surveillance Tech Debacles|Jesse Marx|December 28, 2020|Voice of San Diego
She defended the use of license plate readers as “a deterrent to crime” but acknowledged that the city needs to earn the trust and confidence of city residents when deploying such technologies.
Morning Report: Real Estate Deals Dogged Faulconer’s Tenure|Voice of San Diego|December 10, 2020|Voice of San Diego
A Twitter user posted his license plate number and his parking tickets.
Pistols, a Hearse and Trucks Playing Chicken: Why Some Voters Felt Harassed and Intimidated at the Polls|by Adriana Gallardo, Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy|December 4, 2020|ProPublica

The camera attached to the SkyGuardian would have required automatic license plate reading software to identify automobile owners from 12,000 feet up.
San Diego Kept Quiet on Plans for Military-Grade Drone to Catch Speeding Drivers|Jesse Marx|December 1, 2020|Voice of San Diego
The young man had the presence of mind to tail Gaylard Williams out of the park and jot down his license plate.
Exposed: The Gay-Bashing Pastor’s Same-Sex Assault|M.L. Nestel|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis.
The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie|Michael Daly|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An eyewitness was able to provide the vehicle's license plate number to police.
First Anti-Semitic Attack Since World War II Rocks Brussels|Tracy McNicoll|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the images were too dim and indistinct to make out a face or a license plate number.
Hero or Criminal? James Brady, the WTC Ironworker Who Jumped Off the Building|Michael Daly|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its license plate reads “IM BIG” and can reach 25 miles per hour.
The Top 13 Guinness World Records of 2013: Kim Kardashian, ‘Breaking Bad,’ Colonel Meow & More||December 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But the license plate would have been visible to anybody walking down the street or who desired?
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
My best judgment is that the license plate was not visible, however, while it was parked; not visible from my house.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
This was the first I had heard anything about their having been a license plate.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
That is the only way I can guess as to how this license plate number was in Oswald's room.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
I was never at any time interested in the license plate number.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for license plate

license plate

Canadian licence plate

noun

US and Canadian a plate mounted on the front and back of a motor vehicle bearing the registration numberAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): numberplate

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