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licensure en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of conferring a license for an activity.
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(countable, uncountable) The condition of being licensed.
The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the then-dominant natural healers — a range of herbalists, midwives, and homeopathic doctors.
1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8:
Forms
Deriveds
relicensure · prelicensure · postlicensure · delicensure