licensing
- noun
- /ˈlaɪsən̩sɪŋ/
- Formal
- In 1988, the Seychelles collected $4.9 million in licensing fees and earned another $1.9 million in transshipment charges.
- licensing requirements
- licensing and certification
- import licensing
You don't need any kind of paperwork or licensing to operate this UAV.
- You don't need any kind of paperwork or licensing to operate this UAV.
- I got like my entire real estate exam and all my licensing done online, which was amazing.
- And then right before we got married, I took the the real estate, the licensing test.
- Safety briefing, you know, out of the water, proper licensing, all that stuff.
- But, you know, my parents sort of gave us the sort of licensing to sort of approach our lives however we needed to.
Examples
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The restaurant must complete the licensing process before opening to the public.
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Mr. Buchenhorner's current responsibilities with IBM include licensing intellectual property in Latin America.
Academic text (1995) -
You should have some licensing process, OK.
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According to the state licensing board, neither am I.
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Why is the licensing of this plant important to California?
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There is some emphasis in the rules about licensing to small companies.
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But you are aware that there are laws governing the licensing and training of medical personnel?
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Our students are introduced to the Creative Commons licensing structure as an alternative to the "all rights reserved" approach.
Academic text (2015) -
Other factors, including licensing requirements and increasing government regulation, also encouraged the trend toward specialization.
Academic text (1994) -
State departments of education frequently use imposed policy in setting licensing standards for teachers or curricular standards for schools.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
An official process that gives people legal permission to work in a regulated job
Compounds
- Formal
A payment to a government or other official group for permission to do an activity
- Formal
A contract that lets someone use another person's invention, brand, or creative work
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Licensing comes from an old Latin verb licere, which means 'to be allowed'. So licensing is the official act of giving someone 'permission' to do something, like drive a car.