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license

Nouns

• (n) a legal document giving official permission to do something permit, licence,
• (n) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) licence,
• (n) 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
  licence,
• (n) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization permission, permit,

Verbs

• (v) authorize officially
  • I am licensed to practice law in this state
  licence, certify,

Synonyms

licence certify permit permission

Antonyms

decertify derecognise derecognize

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