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crosslicenses

crosslicenses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crosslicense.

Meaning of crosslicense

Verb

crosslicense (third-person singular simple present crosslicenses, present participle crosslicensing, simple past and past participle crosslicensed)

  1. (transitive) To license (intellectual property, etc.) each to the other.
    • It’s an industry with huge companies who crosslicense patents with each other and tell little guys to take a hike,” said Robert Megantz, a former general manager of licensing for Dolby and the consultant who worked with Zoltar in the late 1990s.2009 September 21, Steve Lohr, “Now, an Invention Inventors Will Like”, in New York Times

Questions about crosslicenses

What is crosslicenses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Crosslicenses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crosslicense.

Words near crosslicenses in the dictionary

  1. crosslets
  2. Crossley
  3. Crossleys
  4. crosslicense
  5. crosslicensed
  6. crosslicenses
  7. crosslicensing
  8. crossligation
  9. crossligations
  10. crosslight
  11. crosslighted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosslicenses (page history and authors); crosslicense (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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