Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) a driver's licence; an official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorised vehicle.
WordNet
n. a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle [syn: driver's license, driver's licence, driving license]
Usage examples of "driving licence".
Can you arrange to have Chessingham's bank account checked, a monitoring watch kept on all incoming and outgoing mail, a check made with local authorities to see whether a driving licence has ever been issued in his name, a check made with the army unit in which he did his National Service to see if he ever drove a vehicle and, finally, a check on all the local money-lenders to see if Chessingham's on their books.
From the DVLA they got me a driving licence and then provided a robust ACA (alias cover address) keeper.
The momentary madness was over and Marcel, who was obviously as opportunistic as he was sadistic, had picked up my jacket and was going through it hopefully but unsuccessfully, for wallets carried in the inner breast pocket of a jacket invariably fall out when that jacket is carried over the arm and I'd prudently transferred my wallet with its money, passport and driving licence to my hip pocket.
You will also forget the names of Duggan and of the original owner of that driving licence.
Then how do you account for the fact that the name and address taken from a driving licence-this driving licence-' Crammond picked it up and waved it under Mayberry's nose-'is your name and your address?
Tall blond man, British driving licence, though the girl thought he had a slight accent.
But I know Wally, he'll not decide to talk because we pinch his sausages or bluff him with your driving licence.
We're all shitting ourselves in case we're stopped by a cop and Bozo's asked for his driving licence.
There were membership cards of Sydney clubs, an odd Australian two-dollar note among the British currency, an Australian AA card together with an Australian driving licence and an International driving licence, a dozen business cards announcing where I lived and what I did -- it seemed I was the managing director of a firm importing office machinery.
Even if that were all, they would still ask for his driving licence, and he had no kind of identification.
Hunting licence ditto, but small game only, vermin, as it isn't quite the deer season yet, also driving licence to replace the provisional one I had waiting for you with the Hertz people.
Barney Smee had no difficulty in understanding the silver-haired investor who called himself Richards and had a driving licence to prove it.