LICENSE
\lˈa͡ɪsəns], \lˈaɪsəns], \l_ˈaɪ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of LICENSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a legal document giving official permission to do something
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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
By Princeton University
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a legal document giving official permission to do something
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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
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
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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.
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To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
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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.
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To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
By Noah Webster.
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The legal authority or formal permission from authorities to carry on certain activities which by law or regulation require such permission. It may be applied to licensure of institutions as well as individuals.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Authority to act at discretion; permission; leave; unrestrained liberty; legal permission; as, an automobile license; permitted variation from a rule; as, poetic license.
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Grant permission by law. Also, licence.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To authorize; permit.
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Authority granted to do ro omit an act; also, unrestrained or unwarrantable liberty of actlon.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Leave; permission; a certificate giving permission; excess or abuse of liberty.
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To permit by grant of authority; to authorise.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. [Latin] Authority or liberty given to do or format any act;— leave; permission; especially the lawful warrant to practice, as in medicine, surgery, &c., or to preach the gospel; or to deal in intoxicating liquors;— the document granting permission'; certificate; permit;— excess of liberty; exorbitant freedom.
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