English to English
noun
- a legal document giving official permission to do something
source: WordNet 3.0
- freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
source: WordNet 3.0
- excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
The intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- authorize officially
I am licensed to practice law in this state.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
source: Webster 1913
