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licences

licences is the plural of licence.

licences is the third-person singular simple present indicative of licence.

Meaning of licence

Noun

licence (countable and uncountable, plural licences)

  1. UK, 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

Phrases with licences

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Questions about licences

What is licences the plural of?
Licences is the plural of licence.

Words near licences in the dictionary

  1. licencee
  2. licencees
  3. licenceless
  4. licencer
  5. licencers
  6. licences
  7. licences to crenellate
  8. licences to print money
  9. licencing
  10. licencings
  11. licencious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: licences (page history and authors); licence (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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