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license
('l/aI/s/@/ns )

noun (n)

  • a legal document giving official permission to do something(noun.communication)
    Synonym:
    licence, permit
    source: wordnet30
  • freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)(noun.state)
    Synonym:
    licence
    source: wordnet30
  • excessive freedom; lack of due restraint(noun.state)
    Example:
    When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
    The intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum.
    source: wordnet30
  • the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization(noun.act)
    Synonym:
    permission, permit
    source: wordnet30
  • Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • authorize officially(verb.social)
    Example:
    I am licensed to practice law in this state.
    Synonym:
    certify, licence
    Antonym:
    decertify, derecognise, derecognize
    source: wordnet30
  • To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.(verb)
    source: webster1913

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