delicensev.
/ˌdiːˈlʌɪs(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˌdiˈlaɪsns/ 1. transitive. To deprive (a person, business, vehicle, etc.) of a license providing official permission to operate; spec. to deprive (a public house, hotel, restaurant, etc.) of a license for the sale of alcohol.
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1864 S. Austral. Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 Nov. The Rhynie school is in a very unsatisfactory state, and deserves to be delicensed at the end of the current quarter.
1935 Telegraph (Brisbane) 14 Aug. 18/2 He urged that a hairdressers' board be established which would license competent hairdressers and delicense those who were incompetent.
1970 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 7 Apr. 10/4 It appeared no officer would be able to delicense a car without some kind of legislation being passed.
2006 Driffield Times (Nexis) 16 Feb. The Eagle..will be de-licensed and will not be eligible to serve alcohol for the first time in 183 years.
2. transitive. To free (an industry, product, export, etc.) from licensing restrictions or regulatory controls; to deregulate.Now chiefly in Indian contexts.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from regulation or restriction
unlacea1555
derestrict1955
delicense1957
deregulate1964
unban1968
1957 Financial Times 24 July 2/5 700 items had been delicensed and now only 15 per cent. by value of all imports were subject to licensing.
1975 Eastern Economist 15 Aug. 324/1 The government has decided to delicence the export of 175 of the 300 commodities for which export licensing is required.
2015 Econ. Times (India) (Nexis) 20 Jan. Sensing a need for change, the government began de-licensing industries in the eighties.
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deˈlicensed adj.
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1894 Ashburton (N.Z.) Guardian 6 Oct. The corner.., that was occupied by the delicensed Golden Fleece, has been transformed into four handsome shops.
1975 Springfield (Manitoba) Leader 15 July 9/4 The de-licensed driver is a chronic cause of trouble and frustration for law enforcement agencies.
2009 Indian Econ. Rev. 44 91 Delicensed industries located in states with pro-employer labor regulations are found to exhibit faster growth in terms of both output and employment levels.
deˈlicensing n.
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1892 Christian Union 12 Mar. 493/2 From the moment drink became a lawful, licensed institution by the State, the sphere of moral suasion became extended to the use of all moral means short of force for obtaining its de-licensing and suppression.
1947 Times 2 July 8/1 The State should quite unhesitatingly apply a policy of decontrol and delicensing so that the winds of free competition might blow through those avenues.
2012 R. R. Vaidya in P. Dee Econ. Reform Processes in S. Asia iv. 61 The crisis provided an enabling environment for some initial bold steps involving de-licensing of domestic production and investment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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