letters patent

Definitions

Accounting

• plural noun the official term for a patent

Law

• plural noun an official document from the Crown, which gives someone the exclusive right to make and sell an invention

Politics

• plural noun an official document from the crown, which gives someone the exclusive right to do something, especially making and selling an invention

Publishing

• plural noun an official document which gives somebody the exclusive right to make and sell something they have invented

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Contexts for “letters patent”

4 definitions in context
• Accounting
• Law
• Politics
• Publishing