license
noun
formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
was licensing
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past progressiveof license.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Google is confident enough in its model that in October, the company announced that it was licensing it to partners in Thailand and India.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024
The Segal family owns the Fred Segal trademark, said Lotman, who was licensing the trademark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
OpenAI was licensing Twitter’s data — a feed of every tweet — for about $2 million a year to help build ChatGPT, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
When Krafton, the company behind PUBG, announced it was licensing the Korean fantasy novel The Bird That Drinks Tears, it didn’t reveal a game or a movie but rather plans for a multimedia franchise.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2021
In July, 2000, Troll Tech, a Norwegian software company and developer of Qt, a valuable suite of graphics tools for the GNU/Linux operating system, announced it was licensing its software under the GPL.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
