"off-licence" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fact that the stores have a licence to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "off-licences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "off-licence (plural off-licences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 40",
          "text": "Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 123",
          "text": "After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises."
      ],
      "id": "en-off-licence-en-noun-ZdJfxUtQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "alcohol",
          "alcohol"
        ],
        [
          "consumption",
          "consumption"
        ],
        [
          "premises",
          "premises"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, Britain) A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "off-sale"
        },
        {
          "word": "off-trade"
        },
        {
          "word": "fully licensed"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "Australia",
            "New-Zealand"
          ],
          "word": "bottle shop"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "British",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "offy"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "liquor store"
        },
        {
          "word": "off licence"
        },
        {
          "word": "off-license"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "Ireland"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "off-licence"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "off-licence"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fact that the stores have a licence to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "off-licences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "off-licence (plural off-licences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "off-sale"
    },
    {
      "word": "off-trade"
    },
    {
      "word": "fully licensed"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 40",
          "text": "Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 123",
          "text": "After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "alcohol",
          "alcohol"
        ],
        [
          "consumption",
          "consumption"
        ],
        [
          "premises",
          "premises"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, Britain) A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "Ireland"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "off-licence"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ],
      "word": "bottle shop"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "offy"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "liquor store"
    },
    {
      "word": "off licence"
    },
    {
      "word": "off-license"
    }
  ],
  "word": "off-licence"
}