A sign affixed to a vehicle displaying its registration details; a number plate.
British term number plate
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When my number was called we went to a counter with a nice old lady who took my money, then gave me a Kleenex to wipe off my license plate to affix the sticker.
She strained in the bright morning sunlight to see the license plate.
His vehicle has sustained no damage whatsoever - just a bent license plate.
In Washington D.C., a cop threatened to arrest me once because I didn't have a front license plate on my car.
That's equivalent to reading an automobile license plate from 100 kilometers away.
Worried about automatic cameras snapping a picture of your license plate as you speed through red lights?
When a police car is near yours he gets a letter or number off your license plate.
We can rattle off the number of a license plate that could lead to a sniper's arrest.
As he gazed upon the license plate in front of him with its letters and numbers, he almost wished for a car.
I wrote the number of the license plate down, and stuck it in my back pocket.
She focused on his license plate, but couldn't really record the number.
She looked at the license plate as the red car drove off.
Before he got in his car I couldn't help but remember his license plate.
And it was reported to us as a gray automobile with the partial license plate of 266.
They also ripped the license plate off it and took it with them to take somewhere else so they wouldn't identify the car right away.
The victim also caught several numbers on the license plate as well as the make of the car.
Once he enters it in there he could have it look up the license plate to find out who was driving it.
A license plate belonging to a car was found next to the body.
Whenever they spot an out-of-state license plate, have them use crayons to color in that state on their map.
That's when you catch the snoop in your rear-view mirror, methodically recording your license plate in a notepad.