Synonyms:
license, licence, permit
Meaning: a legal document giving official permission to do something
Synonyms:
license, licence
Meaning: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
license, licence, certify
Meaning: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
Usage examples
A general resident license should be required for hunting.
Having license to do as they pleased, they would of course carry their cruelties to the most extreme verge of punishment.
It cannot be denied that the effects of this extreme license of the press tend indirectly to the maintenance of public order.
Morrison next occupied the island until he was starved out. Then another man named Thomas took the fatal grazing license, but he did not live on the land.
After the discovery of Gippsland, Pearson and Black first occupied the island under a grazing license, and they put eleven thousand sheep on it, with some horses, bullocks, and pigs.
When the last sheep had perished, Cole sold his license to a man named Thomas, who put on more sheep, and afterwards exchanged as many as he could find with John King for cattle and horses.
At first I did not comprehend him, but I soon found that the library was a kind of literary "preserve," subject to game-laws, and that no one must presume to hunt there without special license and permission.
In this question, therefore, there is no medium between servitude and extreme license; in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.
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