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名詞

licence (countable and uncountable, plural licences)

1. UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.
   • 1944, The Labour Gazette, volume 44, page 720:

     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.

   • 2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]

派生語

動詞

licence (third-person singular simple present licences, present participle licencing, simple past and past participle licenced)

1. (UK, Canada, South Africa, nonstandard) Misspelling of license.

使用する際の注意点

• In British English, Canadian English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, and New Zealand English the noun is spelled licence and the verb is license. E.g. 'Television Licence'; 'driving licence'.
• The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States.