'License' definitions:
Definition of 'license'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: license, licence]
noun
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: license, licence]
noun
The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission, permit]
verb
Authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize]
Definition of 'License'
From: GCIDE
- License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. --P. Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The document granting such permission. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety. [1913 Webster]
- License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Leave; liberty; permission. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'License'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'license'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Lehrfreiheit,
- let,
- liberties,
- libertinage,
- libertinism,
- liberty,
- liberty abused,
- licentiousness,
- lieutenancy,
- loose,
- looseness,
- mandate,
- misrule,
- mission,
- mix-up,
- morass,
- muddle,
- mutiny,
- nihil obstat,
- office,
- OK,
- 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
Words containing 'License'
- Licensable,
- Licensed,
- Licenser,
- Licensing,
- Letter of license,
- Licensed victualer,
- Poetic license,
- driver's license,
- driving license,
- fishing license,
- game license,
- hunting license,
- license fee,
- license number,
- license plate,
- license tax,
- licensed electrician,
- licensing agreement,
- licensing fee,
- liquor license,
- marriage license,
- occupation license,
- on-license,
- wedding license,
- licensed practical nurse