Collocations for licence - noun

valid | special | car, driving | marriage | export, gaming, import, operating, trade, trading
The government is currently granting no operating licences to foreig

television/TV | gun | software, user
The CD-ROM comes with a single-user licence.

entertainment, music
The bar was refused a music licence.

hotel, refreshment, restaurant

have, hold
You have to have a licence to sell beer. | Applicants must hold a valid driving licence.

buy, gain, get, obtain, win
You can buy a TV licence at the post office. | She gained her private pilot''s licence. | I got my driving licence when I was eighteen. | The company has won the licence to run trains from the south coast to London.

apply for, make an application for | grant (sb), issue | refuse sb | revoke, take away
He''s had his licence taken away.

renew | lose
She lost her driving licence when she was caught drink-driving.

expire, run out
The licence expires at the end of the year.

fee, holder

in a/the ~
All these details are specified in the licence.

under a/the ~
The weapons were exported under a special export licence.

under ~
They are Italian trains, but they will be built in Britain under licence.

~ for
a licence for software manufacture

~ from
a licence from the Performing Rights Society

the holder of a licence