licence

plural licences

1. countableuncountableUK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.

   In some areas they have attempted to decasualize certain types of employment and to control street-trading by a local licensing system requiring juveniles to obtain their licences through the committees.

   1944, The Labour Gazette, volume 44, page 720

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   Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]

   2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN

present singular third person licences · participle present licencing · participle past licenced · past licenced

1. CanadaSouth AfricaUKmisspellingnonstandardMisspelling of license.