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licencing

licencing is the present participle and gerund of licence.

licencing is the alternative form of licensing.

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

Meaning of licensing

Noun

licensing (countable and uncountable, plural licensings)

  1. A giving of license to do something; sanction.
    • To fence Truth about with prohibition and licensings, the weak inventions of fear and policy, is to doubt her strength, and vainly to imagine that she needs our protection in the battle that she is for ever waging with falsehood and with error.1874, T. Turner, Lessons in English Literature, volume 1, page 155
    Synonyms:
    licensure

Forms of licencing

plurallicencings

Questions about licencing

What is licencing the present participle and gerund of?
Licencing is the present participle and gerund of licence.

Words near licencing in the dictionary

  1. licencer
  2. licencers
  3. licences
  4. licences to crenellate
  5. licences to print money
  6. licencing
  7. licencings
  8. licencious
  9. licensability
  10. licensable
  11. license

Source and license

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