 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
license
noun
1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn: {licence}, {permit}]
2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
[syn: {licence}]
3: 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 [syn: {licence}]
4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
[syn: {permission}, {permit}]
verb: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this
state" [syn: {licence}, {certify}] [ant: {decertify}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p.
{Licensed} (l[imac]"senst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Licensing}.]
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to
license a man to preach. --Milton. --Shak.
Syn: licence, certify.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), noun [Written also {licence}.]
[F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob.
orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See
{Loan}, and cf. {Illicit}, {Leisure}.]
1. 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.
To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.
--P. Plowman.
2. The document granting such permission. --Addison.
3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton.
4. That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which
an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be
permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained;
as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
187 Moby Thesaurus words for "license":
Lehrfreiheit, OK, academic freedom, accredit, admission, agency,
agentship, allow, allowance, anarchy, approve, assign, assignment,
assumption, authority, authorization, authorize, blank check,
brevet, building permit, care, carte blanche, certificate, certify,
chaos, charge, charter, commission, commissioning, commit,
commitment, confusion, consent, consign, consignment,
constitutional freedom, copyright, cure, debauchery, debauchment,
delegate, delegated authority, delegation, deputation, depute,
deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolution, devolve,
devolve upon, devolvement, diplomatic immunity, discharge,
disobedience, dispensation, dissipation, dissoluteness, document,
embassy, empower, empowerment, enable, enfranchise, entitle,
entrust, entrusting, entrustment, errand, exception, executorship,
exemption, exequatur, fabulous formless darkness, factorship,
familiarity, fastness, favor, fishing license, foul-up, franchise,
freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of worship,
full power, gallantry, give in charge, give official sanction,
give power, grant, hassle, hubris, hunting license, immunity,
imposition, imprimatur, indiscipline, indulgence, insubordination,
interregnum, irresponsibility, jurisdiction, lawlessness, laxity,
leave, legalize, legation, legislative immunity, legitimize, let,
liberties, libertinage, libertinism, liberty, liberty abused,
licentiousness, lieutenancy, loose, looseness, mandate, misrule,
mission, mix-up, morass, muddle, mutiny, nihil obstat, office,
okay, patent, permission, permission to enter, permit,
plenipotentiary power, post, power of attorney, power to act,
power vacuum, presumption, presumptuousness, privilege,
procuration, profligacy, proxy, purview, rakishness, rampant will,
ratify, regency, regentship, relaxation, release, responsibility,
run, sanction, screw-up, send out, slackness, snafu, special favor,
special permission, suffer, task, the Four Freedoms, the run of,
ticket, ticket of admission, transfer, trust, trusteeship,
unaccountability, unbridledness, uncontrol, undue liberty,
unrestraint, validate, venery, vicarious authority, vouchsafement,
waiver, warrant, wenching, whoring, wildness, willfulness
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