• Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed, licenced
  Meaning: given official approval to act; "an accredited college"; "commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist"; "authorized representative"

• A licensed auctioneer was brought, and the sale commenced.
• In effect, Americans were now licensed by Great Britain to trade in certain commodities and in certain amounts with neutral countries.
• The honest tenant--the laborer who earns weekly a moderate but constant salary--is more to be envied than the independent but small farmer, or the poor licensed mechanic.
• A schoolmaster can be referred to contemptuously as an usher; a doctor is regarded humorously as a licensed murderer; a solicitor is always retiring to gaol for making away with trust funds, and, in any case, is merely an attorney; while a civil servant sleeps from ten to four every day, and is only waked up at sixty in order to be given a pension.
• The position of Christian humanity with its prisons, galleys, gibbets, its factories and accumulation of capital, its taxes, churches, gin-palaces, licensed brothels, its ever-increasing armament and its millions of brutalized men, ready, like chained dogs, to attack anyone against whom their master incites them, would be terrible indeed if it were the product of violence, but it is pre-eminently the product of public opinion.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Stuttering, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Spoo, License CC BY-SA 4.0