licence

Found in thesaurus: liberty, legal document, official document, instrument, legal instrument, clear, authorize, pass, authorise

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licence

n. permit, certificate; authority; authorization; freedom (action, belief, etc.); unrestraint, immoderation (alternate spelling for license)

v. issue a license, grant a permit; authorize, permit, allow

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License

The verb license or grant license means to give permission. The noun licence (British, Indian, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, or South African English) or license (American English) refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.

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Noun
1. excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
(synonym) license
(hypernym) liberty
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
(synonym) license
(hypernym) liberty
(hyponym) poetic license
(derivation) license, certify
3. a legal document giving official permission to do something
(synonym) license, permit
(hypernym) legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
(hyponym) building permit
(classification) law, jurisprudence

Verb
1. authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
(synonym) license, certify
(hypernym) authorize, authorise, pass, clear
(hyponym) franchise
(entail) approve, O.K., okay, sanction
(derivation) licensee, licencee

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licence

nf. license, licentiousness

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licence

n. povolení; licence; svolení