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television licence

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television licence
(also TV licence) n
(in Britain) an official piece of paper giving permission to own a television. The cost of this (the licence fee) is set every year by the government. A licence lasts for one year. The money collected in this way is used to pay for BBC television and radio programmes.

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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