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  • verb Present participle of licence.

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Examples

  • I keep thinking at 3. 30am on a Saturday/Sunday morning I would like to see the Home Secretary stand in our town and say that 24 hour licencing is a good idea and works.

    The Weekend Starts Here « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • If driver and vehicle licencing is something that shouldn't be separated, why should historical conservation?

    The Union Dividend Jeff 2007

  • The licencing is for Houses in Multiple Occupation and there is broad political support for their creation as they give more power to local authorities to stop cowboy landlords and will, hopefully, save lives.

    Get Your Property Licence or We'll 'Get' You Says Government 2006

  • It said that the government was drafting laws to control the media by "licencing" journalists and by establishing a state-controlled press council.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • 'licencing' hype which they scream, they could opensource it tomorrow, but you would end up with a massive migration to it - why do that when you can hype a system like linux which requires massive TLC and you can sell millions of dollars worth of 'services' just to get things glued into an existing infrastructure.

    OSNews 2009

  • Well mostly theylooked the same, because when Steve McIntyre was told that some of the metereological data was not available to non-academics because of commercial licencing agreements, he threw a hissy fit and told the lunatics that follow his blog to fire off FOI requests at the CRU.

    2010 February | Serendipity 2010

  • Well mostly theylooked the same, because when Steve McIntyre was told that some of the metereological data was not available to non-academics because of commercial licencing agreements, he threw a hissy fit and told the lunatics that follow his blog to fire off FOI requests at the CRU.

    Can we get on with some science please? | Serendipity 2010

  • The two lower courts, and now the US supreme court, cited a critical but little-known 1976 supreme court decision upholding a state employer sanctions law in California, as well as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, or IRCA, which established a new federal employer sanctions regime, but explicitly excluded issues relating to "business licencing" from the scope of the law.

    Arizona's big win on immigration law | Stewart J Lawrence 2011

  • Currently manufacturers of action figures actually make licencing arrangements with companies who sponsor a specific athlete and professional sports teams.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1118 2009

  • Well mostly theylooked the same, because when Steve McIntyre was told that some of the metereological data was not available to non-academics because of commercial licencing agreements, he threw a hissy fit and told the lunatics that follow his blog to fire off FOI requests at the CRU.

    2010 February 9 | Serendipity 2010

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