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licence

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈlaɪ.səns//
  • Australia//ˈlɑe.səns//
  • New Zealand//ˈlaɪsəns//
  • New Zealand/[ˈlɑe̯.səns]/

UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.

noun

  1. 1

    UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.

    In some areas they have attempted to decasualize certain types of employment and to control street-trading by a local licensing system requiring juveniles to obtain their licences through the committees.

    Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of licenseMisspelling of license.

Forms

plural
licences
past tense
licenced
past participle
licenced
present participle
licencing
third person singular
licences
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).