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🚫 To remove license need ❌ To revoke license
to delicense

to delicense

7.9
To take away someone's official permission to work or run a business because they broke rules
  • verb
  • /dɪˈlaɪsəns/
  • Formal
: revocar la licencia
  • After several safety violations, the board decided to delicense the restaurant.

Examples

  • If a doctor breaks the law, the medical council may delicense them.

  • The government threatened to delicense the broadcaster for violating regulations.

  • The state decided to delicense the company for safety violations.

  • Can the city delicense businesses that fail to comply?

  • The government threatened to delicense the broadcaster for violating regulations.

  • After several safety violations, the board decided to delicense the restaurant.

  • If a doctor breaks the law, the medical council may delicense them.

Synonyms

to disannul
vsto delicense
  • Formal
1 9.3

To cancel an earlier decision that said something was not valid so it becomes valid again

removes a specific permission as a penalty for rule breaking

Antonyms

to license
23 3.4

To give official permission to do something after checking qualifications

How Severe

to delicense
  • Formal
7.9
to suspend
228 3.9
to warn
20 1.5

Surface Forms

delicense infinitive
delicensed past
delicensed past participle
delicensing present participle
delicenses third person singular

Morphology

delicense = license (transparent) = de + license

This is a straightforward reversal meaning: to remove or revoke a license previously granted.

Etymology

Delicense comes from the prefix de- meaning 'remove' and license meaning 'official permission'. In this sense, to delicense someone is to 'take away their permission', for example canceling a person's license as a punishment.