License - Definition
license
n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn: license, licence, permit]
2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn:
license, 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: license, licence]
4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
[syn: license, permission, permit]
v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in
this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant:
decertify, derecognise, derecognize]