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licensing
noun
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the giving of a licence
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
collecting
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noun
(= collection)
the act of gathering something together
society
Noun
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A society is a large number of people and the way they live, talking together, working with each other and making rules and ways to live. A society can be a town, country or more than one country together, with many people living the same ways.
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A society is an organization or club that people can join.