A licentiate is someone who has been given official permission to practise a particular art or profession — historically a doctor, a lawyer, a preacher, or another skilled person who may now do the work in public. It is a formal, rather old-fashioned noun in everyday English; most people today just say a licensed doctor or a qualified teacher. Though actually the word also names a university degree in some countries, sitting between a master’s and a doctorate in places such as Sweden, or close to a first professional degree in parts of the Spanish-speaking world. You will meet that sense in academic writing about those systems, not in a British or American classroom. It is rare in ordinary talk everywhere. It is not the same as a licensee, who simply holds a licence to run a shop, a pub, or a business.

獲准執業者（舊式、正式）；某些國家的學位名稱，約在碩士與博士之間。台灣幾乎不說這個詞，不要和「執照持有人」（licensee）混在一起。