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licensed

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈlaɪsənst//
  • /[ˈlaɪsn̩st]/

Having been issued with a licence (by the required authority).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been issued with a licence (by the required authority).

    Only licensed exterminators can purchase rat poison in this state.

  2. 2

    Having been issued with a licence (by the required authority). Allowed to sell alcohol.

    The opening hours of licensed premises are restricted to prevent all-night drinking.

  3. 3

    Authorized by licence.

    Even licensed fishing has a major effect on the fish population in the river.

  4. 4

    Authorized by licence. Based on an existing piece of intellectual property and sold under licence.

    Although they sell well, licensed video games are seldom critically acclaimed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of licensesimple past and past participle of license

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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).