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license

('l/aI/s/@/ns )

a legal document giving official permission to do something(noun.communication)

Synonym:
licence, permit

source: wordnet30
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)(noun.state)

Synonym:
licence

source: wordnet30
excessive freedom; lack of due restraint(noun.state)

Example:
When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
The intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum.

source: wordnet30
the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization(noun.act)

Synonym:
permission, permit

source: wordnet30
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

authorize officially(verb.social)

Example:
I am licensed to practice law in this state.

Synonym:
certify, licence
Antonym:
decertify, derecognise, derecognize

source: wordnet30
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.(verb)

source: webster1913

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