See also: sub-license

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sub- +‎ license

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sublicense (plural sublicenses)

  1. (law) A license granted by a licensee to a third party, under the authority of the license originally granted by a licensor to the licensee.
    Joe received a license from McDonald's to develop twenty McDonald's restaurants in Dearborn, which included permission to grant a sublicense to the individual restaurant managers.

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sublicense (third-person singular simple present sublicenses, present participle sublicensing, simple past and past participle sublicensed)

  1. (law) to grant a sublicense

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