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Meaning licence meaning

What does licence mean?
Definitions in simple English

licence Noun

— A licence is an official piece of paper that allows you to do something, such as drive, open a business, etc. I got my driver's licence when I was 16 years old.

licence Verb

— Another spelling of license, usually thought to be wrong. The verb form should normally be spelt as license.

licence

— noun (= license) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) — noun (= license) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near — Will Durant the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum — Edmund Burke — noun (= license) a legal document giving official permission to do something — verb (= license) authorize officially I am licensed to practice law in this state

Synonyms licence synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as licence?

licence English » English

license permit permission certificate leave authorization certify warrant pass liberty imprimatur diploma authorize authorisation approval allowance allow vacancy self-indulgence say-so sanction right papers official recognition looseness licence patent let latitude laissez passer furlough freedom endorse driving licence driver’s licence document doctorate dissolution dispensation countenance clearance clear chop charter card authority authorise approve accreditation

Conjugation licence conjugation

How do you conjugate licence?

licence · verb

Examples licence examples

How do I use licence in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom has never owned a driving licence.
He has been driving without driving licence for twenty years.
He has driven without driving licence for twenty years.
He admitted to not having a driving licence.
Neither Tom nor Mary has driving licence.
I don't have a driving licence yet.
She doesn't have a driving licence.
I had my driving licence renewed last month.
Excuse me, could you please show me your driving licence?
He didn't get a driving licence until he was twenty-eight.
I've got a provisional licence.
I have three points on my licence.
To be allowed to drive you need a licence.
He drives without licence.
Do you have special licence plates?
The police confiscated Dan's driving licence.
Tom was arrested for driving without a licence.
She lost her driving licence because of a DUI.
I had my licence renewed a week ago.
Someone stole my driving licence.
Tom had his licence suspended on the spot after crashing his car into an unmarked police car.
I finally got a driving licence.

Movie subtitles

Have you a licence?
That's not your marriage licence.
And if it's against the law to manufacture fireworks without a licence I guess we're guilty of that, too, because we've been doing it a long time.
Just show us your licence to contract. Then you make out an order. Where, when and how much you're gonna pay.
Ask to see his licence.
He ain't allowed to contract men without a licence.
Not here. - Licence?
They was taking down licence numbers.
No, great King. I come to thee for charitable licence, that we may wander o'er this bloody field to book our dead and then to bury them.
They took my licence away.
I issued the licence.
Got a licence?
I have a motorcycle licence.
If ever there was a place to stash a car with a hot licence number.
Go downtown, get a licence, and get married.
Pull over to the side of the road and let me see your marriage licence.
What do you think? Dramatic licence?
You want me to lose my licence?
No, the licence plates were covered with mud. They took tyres and gas.
Can you take care of a man in the style he's not been accustomed to? Got to know those things before I can give you a licence.
What? Licence. No, not for a dog, the other kind.
I have an idea. I'm going to get a licence as a game merchant.
Just show us your licence to contract. Then you make out an order.
A driving licence form and some other ID stuff you'll need to fill in.
I knew there'd be trouble if your Aunt Sarah got her driver's licence.
We don't go on a job without a licence.
You've got a driving licence up to date, though.
Wireless licence.
It had a 1932 licence.
Standing here, I can pick out licence plates from California, Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma.
We too shall have our noble licence that factitious historians wanted to contest.
We've got a licence from the police!
Why did you tell the marriage-licence girl that you were born in Chicago?
I have no licence for handing out miracles.
Oh, you wanna see my driver's licence?
May I see your licence?

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