1 (issue with license) [+drug, medicine] autorizar la comercialización de; [+vehicle] conceder el permiso de circulación a; [+gun] autorizar la licencia de; [+dog, company, operator] registrar; [+surgeon, practitioner] otorgarle la licencia de ejercer a the Royal College examines and licenses surgeons... to be licensed as a clinical psychologist, one must have a Ph.D. in psychology,perform three years of supervised clinical work, and pass a state licensing examination a recommendation that security firms should be licensed they are demanding that all travel operators should be licensed Four companies are likely to be licensed to offer a full range of telecommunications services the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, rejected proposals to license security companies in order to keep out cowboys breeders using more than two bitches for breeding have to be licensed by the local authority the authorities have refused to license the drug At present, if you want to make medicinal claims about a substance, it has to be licensed as a medicine The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has now called for all herbal remedies to be licensed as medical products Since these substances are not licensed, they cannot be sold experiments of this kind must be licensed by the Home Office the authority which licenses vehicles you'll have to license the car if you want to drive it on public roads a procession of vintage vehicles, specially licensed for the occasion, travels at a uniform ten miles per hour Oakland officials are preparing a proposal to take to California legislators that would require the state to license guns to license sb to do sth Under the agreement, the council can license a U.S. company to produce the drug you may be say a gynaecologist but you've got to be licensed to do hysterectomies Britain's Transport and Road Research Laboratory is licensing firms to make the system so it should soon be widely available
to be licensed to do sth tener licencia para hacer algo; estar autorizado para hacer algo; we are not licensed to sell alcohol no tenemos licencia para vender bebidas alcohólicas; no estamos autorizados para vender bebidas alcohólicas; he is licensed to drive this vehicle está autorizado para conducir este vehículo; to be licensed to carry a gun tener licencia para llevar un revólver
/I am licensed to practise psychology/ in New Jersey and Colorado to [have] [get] one's car licensed he'd forgotten to get the car licensed
2 (authorize) [+sale, use] autorizar the State Department says it doesn't think it's allowed to license the sale of any aircraft to these countries the Ministry temporarily licensed the use of dichlorvos on fish farms obtain licence for a law which would require people to license their dogs to license sth [to] sb the company is going to license its software to a number of computer makers The company is not going to manufacture a single machine itself. Instead it has developed a new technology and is licensing it to hardware firms, virtually free, in order to get the machines on the shelves
