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Suppress dodgy licence, pub losing 100 litres
Answer for the clue "Suppress dodgy licence, pub losing 100 litres ", 11 letters:
blue-pencil
Word definitions for blue-pencil in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To edit, especially to censor, written documents. 2 (context politics slang English) To use a line-item veto
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit , delete ] [also: blue-pencilling , blue-pencilled ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluenoser \Blue"nos`er\); a Nova Scotian potato, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] blue-pencil \blue-pencil\ v. t. to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.