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licence

[ lahy-suhns ]

noun

  1. Chiefly British. a variant of license.


licence

/ ˈɪəԲ /

noun

  1. a certificate, tag, document, etc, giving official permission to do something
  2. formal permission or exemption
  3. liberty of action or thought; freedom
  4. intentional disregard of or deviation from conventional rules to achieve a certain effect

    poetic licence

  5. excessive freedom
  6. licentiousness
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of licence1

C14: via Old French and Medieval Latin licentia permission, from Latin: freedom, from licet it is allowed
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Example Sentences

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Lauren, 37, got her driving licence in New Jersey, US, when she was 16.

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A mass of people wearing JSO's orange vests rallied in Westminster on Saturday after the group claimed a victory on new oil and gas licences and said "we're hanging up the hi vis".

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The culture secretary has said the BBC's licence fee is "unenforceable" and insisted "no options are off the table" when the government begins a review into the corporation's current funding model later this year.

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Felton was told his sentence would have been three-and-a-half years without an early guilty plea and he would serve half of his sentence on licence.

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Earlier, Louis Ahearne was sentenced to 33 years, his older brother Stewart Ahearne for 30 years and Kelly for 36 years plus an extra five years on licence.

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