Other forms: off-licences
An off-licence is a shop licensed to sell alcohol to take away. Go to the off-licence.
The licence is to sell for drinking off the premises, which is where the name comes from. An off-licence is often shortened to offie in ordinary British speech.
1nounoff-licenceA shop licensed to sell alcohol to take away.
“The off-licence on the corner was open until eleven.”
off-licence is a shop.
From the licence to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises rather than on them.
From the fact that such stores have a licence only to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the City