sublicence
sublicence is the alternative form of sublicense.
Meaning of sublicense
Noun
sublicense (plural sublicenses)
- 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.
Forms of sublicence
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sublicences |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sublicences |
| present participle | sublicencing |
| past participle | sublicenced |
| past | sublicenced |
Origin of sublicence
From sub- + licence.
Questions about sublicence
- What is sublicence the alternative form of?
- Sublicence is the alternative form of sublicense.
Words near sublicence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sublicence (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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