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license n. [
licence, permit] a legal document giving official permission to do something
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license n. [
licence] freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
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license v. [
licence, certify] authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
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license n. [
licence] 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
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license n. [
permission, permit] the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
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