license plate
a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
Origin of license plate
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How to use license plate in a sentence
The young man had the presence of mind to tail Gaylard Williams out of the park and jot down his license plate.
Exposed: The Gay-Bashing Pastor’s Same-Sex Assault | M.L. Nestel | December 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe cop who had pulled up behind him must have run his license plate and assumed he was that other Henry Davis.
The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie | Michael Daly | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAn eyewitness was able to provide the vehicle's license plate number to police.
First Anti-Semitic Attack Since World War II Rocks Brussels | Tracy McNicoll | May 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the images were too dim and indistinct to make out a face or a license plate number.
Hero or Criminal? James Brady, the WTC Ironworker Who Jumped Off the Building | Michael Daly | March 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIts license plate reads “IM BIG” and can reach 25 miles per hour.
But the license plate would have been visible to anybody walking down the street or who desired?
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyMy best judgment is that the license plate was not visible, however, while it was parked; not visible from my house.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThis was the first I had heard anything about their having been a license plate.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThat is the only way I can guess as to how this license plate number was in Oswald's room.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyI was never at any time interested in the license plate number.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for license plate
US and Canadian a plate mounted on the front and back of a motor vehicle bearing the registration number: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): numberplate
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