license plate

noun

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

license plate

a plate mounted on the front and back of a motor vehicle bearing the registration number Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)numberplate

First recorded in 1900–05

The young man had the presence of mind to tail Gaylard Williams out of the park and jot down his license plate.

The cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis.

An eyewitness was able to provide the vehicle's license plate number to police.

But the images were too dim and indistinct to make out a face or a license plate number.

Its license plate reads “IM BIG” and can reach 25 miles per hour.

But the license plate would have been visible to anybody walking down the street or who desired?

My best judgment is that the license plate was not visible, however, while it was parked; not visible from my house.

This was the first I had heard anything about their having been a license plate.

That is the only way I can guess as to how this license plate number was in Oswald's room.

I was never at any time interested in the license plate number.

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