off-license

American  

[awf-lahy-suhns, of-] / ˈɔfˌlaɪ səns, ˈɒf- /

Or off-licence

noun

1. a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.

2. a store having such a license.

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adjective

1. having such a license.

Etymology

Origin of off-license

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Unfolding over the course of the hottest days of a torrid Upper Manhattan summer, the story of “In the Heights” isn’t particularly new: It involves the complicated love affairs of two couples: Usnavi and Vanessa, a would-be fashion designer played with focused self-assurance by Melissa Barrera; and Benny and Nina, an off-license taxi dispatcher and a returning Stanford student, played by Corey Hawkins and Leslie Grace.

From Washington Post

Mr Kareem, 20, had been riding an e-scooter along Askew Road from an off-license when it is thought a white Range Rover drove past him and shots were fired from it.

From BBC

War propaganda and Socialist posters are plastered on walls along the cobbled Rue Androuet, in the Montmartre district, now lined by a mock jeweler’s store, tailor and off-license all in war-time decor.

From Reuters

She chose the cool bottles by feel in the dark little off-license nook, beyond a curtain of plastic strips, because she could hardly see in there; her eyes were dazzled from the light outside.

From The New Yorker

In truth Urgup has a much better claim to the saint than any English village with a George and Dragon pub or a red and white flag flying over the off-license.

From The Guardian