license
IPA: ɫˈaɪsʌns
noun
- A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
- The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
- Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
- Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
- Short for driver's license. [(American spelling) A document issued to a specific person by a government authority, permitting this person to drive one or more classes of motor vehicle on public roads and highways, often used as an identification document.]
verb
- To authorize officially.
- (transitive) (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
- To give formal authorization to use.
- To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
- (transitive) To give permission or freedom to; accept.
- (linguistics, transitive) To permit (as grammatically correct).
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Examples of "license" in Sentences
- Free licenses are not revocable.
- Legal licenses are not revocable.
- It's one of the unsuitable licenses.
- Belgian remunerated football license.
- The license is vested in the government.
- Is this a stipulation of the license or the author
- But the mention of the kind of license is sufficient.
- In short, the license is no license at all, and the promise is illusory.
- They always try to sneak in incognito, because they don't have a legal license.
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