license
Make sure you are dealing with a licensed massage therapist.
Federal law prohibits licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to individuals under the age of 21.
Sales of licensed baseball merchandise bring in about $100 million per year.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Legal & illegal
bang to rightsidiom
bookable
bootleg
chargeable
concealed carryidiom
controverted election
criminally
illegality
improper
legitimate
legitimately
licit
licitly
non-criminal
non-legal
shady
treasonable
unlawful
validity
validly

licensed | Business English

licensed
adjective
uk /ˈlaɪsənst/us
LAW, GOVERNMENT
having official permission to do, have, or sell something:
You should ensure that your investment adviser is licensed.
The goods originated from state inspected and licensed facilities.
a licensed driver/engineer/therapist
a licensed broker/contractor/dealer
LAW, COMMERCE, IT
produced, used, or sold with the permission of the person or company who has created something or owns something:
About 300 licensed products will reach stores by the end of the year.
The version of the software they were using was not licensed.
LAW, GOVERNMENT UK
officially allowed to sell alcohol:
Over the past 20 years, the number of licensed premises has increased by 23%.
The restaurant is not licensed, but you can bring your own wine.

Examples of licensed

licensed
This attitude of ours is a form of "scientism" we think licensed by the track record of the scientific disciplines and institutions.
As it would appear, nothing is better suited to prevent a revolutionary upheaval than the licensed revolt enacted in carnival.
Music can be licensed under creative commons,8 meaning that the artists can determine how and for what purposes their music can be used.
Since the number is also specified in the output of the lexical rule, plural inflectional affixes cannot be combined with stems licensed by (47).
Firstly, a licensed position acquires its ability to a-license melodic material from its p-licensor.
Similarly, in languages where n-words normally need to be licensed, they can sometimes appear in adjoined contexts, but fail to appear in conjoined contexts.
The number of obligatory arguments licensed by the verb indicates the level of complexity of a verb.
The loss of agreement clitics naturally means that pro is no longer licensed in posthead argument position.
At present, however, no products have been licensed for clinical use.
This insatiable thirst spawned illicit trade, and as the tributary trade waned, illicit traders replaced licensed merchants as major players in the trade network.
Players bought slips with numbers on them on street corners or from licensed operators.
Anonymously authored pamphlets were hardly the most serious obstacles that the state's informers and their police partners in licensed crime had to overcome.
Assessing medically impaired older drivers in a licensed agency setting.
Another event role, that of initiator, may be licensed by a higher functional projection.
Adjuvants that are currently licensed for use in humans.
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