Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
off-licence
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An off-licence permits the sale of liquor for consumption off the premises.
▪ Cook's Chenin Blanc sells at around £3.79 a bottle from Tesco and leading off-licences.
▪ Fog or no fog, she would have to go out as soon as the off-licence opened to replenish her stock.
▪ Hit hardest in Lurgan are businesses which open late such as pubs, off-licences and fast food bars.
▪ I get to my studio at about 7.30am and the off-licence opens at 8am.
▪ Licences normally take either of two forms: a full on-licence, or an off-licence.
▪ Meanwhile, two men involved in the uproar surrounding the Chancellor's visit to a west London off-licence have been suspended.
▪ Threshers have different names for their off-licences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-licence
off-licence \off-licence\ n. a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere.
Syn: package store, liquor store.
Wiktionary
off-licence
n. (context Ireland British English) A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.
WordNet
off-licence
n. a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere [syn: package store, liquor store]
Usage examples of "off-licence".
So Dunster and I arrived at Gloucester Crescent with a Carafino red from the off-licence.
Back home there's a guy who works in my nearest off-licence: he's got a conk like a haemorrhaged strawberry.
And you must arrange an account at The Apple Tree, and the nearest off-licence and install satellite television, so he doesn't get bored down here.