on-license

1. 1.

   a license to sell liquor for consumption on the premises

   Broaderliquor license

Questions about on-license

What does on-license mean?

on-license means "a license to sell liquor for consumption on the premises".

How many syllables are in on-license?

on-license has 3 syllables and divides as on--li-cense under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is on-license a common word?

on-license is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.