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An off-licence is a British shop that sells wine, beer, and other drinks with alcohol, in bottles or cans, to take away. You do not drink them in the shop. Pubs and bars are different: there you drink on the premises. People also it to offie in very informal British talk. In American English the usual word is liquor store; in Australia, bottle shop. You would not use off-licence in the US. It is ordinary British English, a little old-fashioned in some cities where people now just go to the supermarket, but still widely understood.
（英國）外帶酒行、瓶裝酒專賣店。只能買了帶走，不能在店裡喝；美國說 liquor store。
組成From the licence such shops hold: they may sell alcohol only for drinking off the premises (away from the shop), not for drinking inside.
同家族的字
- licencethe legal paper that lets you sell alcohol; the shop is named for the kind of paper it has
- on-licencethe other kind: alcohol may be drunk there, as in a pub
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
off-licencenoun
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A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.
- 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.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。