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sub-license

sub-license is the alternative form of sublicense.

Meaning of sublicense

Noun

sublicense (plural sublicenses)

  1. A license granted by a licensee to a third party, under the authority of the license originally granted by a licensor to the licensee.
    • Joe received a license from McDonald's to develop twenty McDonald's restaurants in Dearborn, which included permission to grant a sublicense to the individual restaurant managers.

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Forms of sub-license

pluralsub-licenses

Questions about sub-license

What is sub-license the alternative form of?
Sub-license is the alternative form of sublicense.

Words near sub-license in the dictionary

  1. sub-lessee
  2. sub-lessees
  3. sub-lessor
  4. sub-lessors
  5. sub-licensable
  6. sub-license
  7. sub-lieutenant
  8. sub-lieutenants
  9. sub-light
  10. sub-liminal
  11. sub-marine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-license (page history and authors); sublicense (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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