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Definition of licentiate noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

licentiate

noun

/laɪˈsenʃiət/

/laɪˈsenʃiət/

(specialist)

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a person with official permission to work in a particular profession
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from medieval Latin, noun use of licentiatus ‘having freedom’, based on licentia ‘freedom’.

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