license
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(noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization |
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Synonyms: permission, permit |
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Related Words: allowance, authorisation, authorization, clearance, conge, dispensation, empowerment |
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| 2. |
(verb) authorize officially |
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Synonyms: certify, licence |
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Related Words: accredit, authorise, authorize, charter, clear, franchise, pass, recognize |
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(noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something |
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Synonyms: permit |
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Related Words: building permit, driver's license, fishing license, game license, hunting license, instrument, learner's permit, legal document, legal instrument, letter of mark and reprisal, letter of marque, letters of marque, liberty chit, liquor license, marriage license, occupation license, official document, pass, wedding license |
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(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) |
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Synonyms: licence |
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Related Words: liberty, poetic license |
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(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 |
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Related Words: liberty |
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