numberplate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To skirt the alternate days regulation, many families buy a used car with a different numberplate.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2018
Tiner, who has a personalised T1NER numberplate, then joined colourful entrepreneur Clive Cowdery at insurance buyout vehicle Resolution.
From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2012
He could appear paternalistic – offering £1,000 to employees to give up smoking, or unexpectedly having a new car with a cherished numberplate ready for a high-performing colleague when they arrived at work.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010
Swap says that pre-printed numberplate backgrounds like the DX-1 from Factory Effex are perfect for guys like his buddy The Shermanator, because the numbers can't get blasted off by stone spray sandwich.
From Time Magazine Archive
The footage and stories are so classic that you'll be entranced even if you never owned a numberplate in your life.
From Time Magazine Archive
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