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say it: LAHY-suhnst
licensed is an adjective meaning "given official approval to act". It is pronounced /ˈlaɪsənst/ — LAHY-suhnst. It carries one recorded sense.
given official approval to act
“an accredited college”
“commissioned broker”
“licensed pharmacist”
“authorized representative”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for licensed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.