LICENCE UK

US license [noun] - an official document which gives you permission to own, do or use something, usually after you have paid money and/or taken a testa dog licence [C]a (UK and ANZ) driving licence/(US) driver's license [C]a gun licence [C]a TV licenceThe police officer asked to see my licence. [C]We've applied for a licence to stage boxing matches. [C + to infinitive]If you want to fish in this river, you have to pay a licence fee.(formal) Licence is also permission or freedom to behave as you wish.As parents, they didn't allow their children much licence. [U]Each section of the company has been given more licence to work in its own way. [U + to infinitive]Artistic licence is the freedom that writers, artists, etc. have to change the facts of the real world and not do or show things in the usual way when they produce a work of art."That picture doesn't look like a tree at all!" "Oh, well - that's artistic licence."A licence to print money is something that makes it possible for esp. a business to make a lot of money.This new drug has turned out to be a licence to print money for the manufacturers.It's a German product, made under licence (= with special permission from the German maker) in British factories.License plate is US for number plate. See at number (SYMBOL).