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"LICENSES" is a plural of: license. |
Date "LICENSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Shipping | - Some governments require certain commodities to be licensed prior to exportation or importation. Clauses attesting to compliance are often required on the B/L. - Various types issued for export (general, validated) and import as mandated by government(s). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LICENSESSynonyms: Qualifications for trades & professions, Trades, Qualifications for. (additional references) |
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Clever | What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and the volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Get your maps, books and licenses here! The Arizona Public Lands Information Center (PLIC) is a partnership between the nonprofit Public Lands Interpretive Association and the Bureau of Land Management. Credit: Chris Tincher. |  | Loco Foco scramble for collectors licenses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Peddler's licenses on poultry truck, market, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Licenses in respect of industrial, literary or artistic property concluded before the war between nationals of the Allied or Associated Powers or persons residing in their territory or carrying on business therein, on the one part, and German nationals, on the other part, shall be considered as cancelled as from the date of the declaration of war between Germany and the Allied or Associated Power. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If possible, continuing education units (CEUs) should be offered to those professionals groups such as social workers whose licenses may require a certain number of training hours per year. Community colleges are usually willing to cooperate in overseeing the CEU process. (references) | |
Business | Four to six licenses will be awarded. (references) | |
Most licenses are valid for 20 years. (references) | ||
Since 1996 to the present, UAPT issued 154 licenses. (references) | ||
Children | Japan | The Health, Labor, and Welfare Ministry started awarding licenses for these professions on a case-by-case basis in July. (references) |
Civil Liberties | India | Licenses do not permit independent news broadcasting. (references) |
Pakistan | However, by year's end, no such licenses had been granted. (references) | |
Economic History | Philippines | All ten licenses were issued. (references) |
Brazil | Again no U.S. companies bid on this licenses. (references) | |
Colombia | Various regional licenses were also authorized. (references) | |
Human Rights | Eritrea | Some Ethiopians had difficulty renewing business licenses, driving licenses, resident permits, or leases. (references) |
Russia | Those providers that do not comply with the requirements face either loss of their licenses or denial of their license renewal. (references) | |
Burma | Previously, only a few businesses and individuals with special connections to the Government were allowed licenses for satellite receivers. (references) | |
Minorities | Malaysia | Such preferential programs and policies limit opportunities for non-Malays in higher education, government employment, business permits and licenses, and ownership of land. (references) |
Tonga | The freeze on issuing new licenses subsequently was lifted, but the hereditary noble's ban (which includes Tongans from outside the district as well) continues at year's end. (references) | |
Tonga | Later in 2000, the hereditary noble of a district in the western part of Tongatapu announced that Chinese-owned stores were banned from his district, and at approximately the same time, the Ministry of Labor, Commerce, and Industries froze the issuing of new licenses for small-scale retail stores. (references) | |
Political Economy | SINGAPORE | It plans to award two more QFB licenses by end-2001. (references) |
BRAZIL | Brazil does not have a history of issuing compulsory licenses. (references) | |
EL SALVADOR | Basic grains and dairy products also must have import licenses. (references) | |
Political Rights | Egypt | Nine appeals of denied licenses were pending before the Administrative Court at year's end. (references) |
Trade | Dominican Rep | No export licenses are required. (references) |
Egypt | Egypt no longer requires import licenses. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | International drivers licenses are valid in Egypt. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | While V-SAT licenses may be issued shortly, the use of private satellite communication transponders is not allowed. (references) | |
Latvia | U.S. drivers' licenses are not valid in Latvia, and American tourists must use a valid International Driver's License issued through the AAA. (references) | |
Women | Saudi Arabia | In 1995 the Ministry of Commerce announced that women would no longer be issued business licenses for work in fields that might require them to supervise foreign workers, interact with male clients, or deal on a regular basis with government officials. (references) |
Worker Rights | Iran | The guilds issue vocational licenses and help members find jobs. (references) |
Malawi | At year's end, 20 firms held licenses to operate under export processing zone (EPZ) status, and all were operational. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We should suspend drivers' licenses, track them across state lines, make them work off what they owe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "LICENSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "LICENSES" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 70% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 30% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LICENSES": sub-licenses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LICENSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kontingent,der forvaltes ved hjælp af licenser (quota administered through licenses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | door middel van invoervergunningen beheerd contingent (quota administered through licenses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | contingent administré par voie de licences (quota administered through licenses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lizenzen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | contingente gestito per mezzo di licenze (quota administered through licenses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icenseslay contingente administrado através de licenças (quota administered through licenses). (various references) разрешение на внутреннее использование (internal use license, internal use licenses), разрешение на подготовку (training licenses). (various references) contingente administrado por medio de licencias (quota administered through licenses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LICENSES": relicenses, sublicenses. (additional references) | |
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"LICENSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leccese, licemse, licencees, licensce, Licenza, licesse, licnese, licsense, liecense, liscences, liscense, lisences, lisense, lucases, lucence, lucientes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LICENSES" (pronounced lī"sunsuz) |
| 8 | l ī" s u n s u z | licences. |
| 6 | -s u n s u z | absences, reminiscences. |
| 5 | -u n s u z | acceptances, acquaintances, alliances, allowances, ambulances, annoyances, appearances, appliances, assurances, audiences, balances, cadences, clearances, condolences, conferences, confidences, consciences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, countenances, differences, disallowances, disappearances, distances, disturbances, divergences, eminences, entrances, evidences, experiences, fragrances, grievances, hindrances, imbalances, incidences, inconveniences, indulgences, influences, instances, insurances, issuances, observances, occurrences, ordinances, performances, preferences, presences, prominences, protuberances, provinces, reassurances, references, remembrances, remittances, resemblances, residences, sciences, sentences, sequences, silences, substances, tolerances, utterances, variances. |
| 4 | -n s u z | advances, allegiances, announces, Biosciences, bounces, chances, circumstances, coincidences, commences, consequences, convinces, dances, defenses, denounces, dispenses, enhances, expanses, expenses, fences, finances, flounces, glances, inferences, nuances, offenses, ounces, prances, pretenses, princes, pronounces, refinances, renounces, responses, romances, sconces, senses, stances. |
| 3 | -s u z | abuses, accomplices, aces, actresses, addresses, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, amaryllises, annexes, apparatuses, appendixes, apprentices, asses, assesses, atlases, auspices, axes, bases, basses, biases, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, cases, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chases, choices, choruses, circuses, classes, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, collapses, complexes, compresses, concourses, confesses, congresses, converses, corpses, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, databases, decreases, depresses, devices, disabuses, discourses, discusses, dismisses, displaces, distresses, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, embraces, encompasses, endorses, enforces, erases, esses, excesses, excuses, exes, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fetuses, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, furnaces, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, geniuses, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, impresses, impulses, increases, indexes, induces, injustices, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nurses, offices, omnibuses, orifices, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, palaces, paradoxes, passes, penises, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prejudices, premises, presses, prices, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, promises, prospectuses, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, recesses, reduces, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, reminisces, replaces, reproduces, repurchases, resources, retroviruses, reverses, sacrifices, sauces, seamstresses, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, traces, treatises, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, vases, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: silences. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: enisles, ensiles, iceless, license, selenic, seniles, silence. | |
-2 letters: censes, clines, ecesis, enisle, ensile, lenses, lessen, nieces, scenes, seines, senile, slices. | |
-3 letters: ceils, cense, cines, cline, isles, lenes, lenis, lense, liens, lines, niece, scene, seels, seine, seise, sense, sices, since, sines, slice. | |
-4 letters: cees, ceil, cels, cess, cine, eels, else, eses, ices, isle, lees, leis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: licensees, licensers, saliences, silencers. | |
+2 letters: clientless, comeliness, facileness, fickleness, insolences, lacinesses, licensures, luminesces, mescalines, relicenses, saliencies, selections, silkscreen, solvencies, splenetics, stencilers, sublicense. | |
+3 letters: centralises, chillnesses, cleanliness, curlinesses, declensions, ethicalness, gracileness, isoleucines, lemniscates, linecasters, lucidnesses, luckinesses, necessarily, nucleosides, pestilences, plasticenes, recessional, resiliences, scalinesses, silkscreens, slickenside, slicknesses, specialness, stencillers, sublicensed, sublicenses. | |
+4 letters: amicableness, candlefishes, chillinesses, cladogenesis, clamminesses, classinesses, clotheslines, cloudinesses, clubbinesses, clumsinesses, cohesionless, comelinesses, concessively, costlinesses, cyclogenesis, cycloserines, delicatessen, electiveness, explicitness, facilenesses, ficklenesses, fluoresceins, forcibleness, geosynclines, glycogenesis, inaccessible, insolvencies, lecithinases, lovesickness, mercifulness, mesalliances, miscellanies, narcolepsies, necropolises, placidnesses, pluckinesses, poeticalness, precessional, princeliness, publicnesses, recessionals, relicensures, resiliencies, selectionist, semicolonies, sicklinesses, slickensides, sociableness, synecologies, verticalness, voicefulness. | |
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