a legal document giving official permission to do something

[ Syn: licence , permit ]

freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

[ Syn: 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

[ Syn: licence ]

the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

[ Syn: permission , permit ]

authorize officially; I am licensed to practice law in this state

[ Syn: licence , certify ]