Usually means: Official document granting exclusive rights.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. letters patent: Merriam-Webster
  2. letters patent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. letters patent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. letters patent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. letters patent: Vocabulary.com
  6. letters-patent, letters patent: Wordnik
  7. letters patent: Wiktionary
  8. letters patent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. letters patent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. letters patent: Dictionary.com
  11. Letters Patent, Letters patent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. letters patent: Rhymezone
  13. Letters Patent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. letters patent: FreeDictionary.org
  15. letters patent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. letters patent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. letters patent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Letters patent: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. letters patent: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (letters patent)

noun:  (law) A type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority to direct that some action be taken; to grant a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization; to record a contract.

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