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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun licence has 3 senses
- licence(n = noun.state) license - excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum" is a kind of liberty
- licence(n = noun.state) license - freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech); Array is a kind of liberty
- licence(n = noun.communication) license, permit - a legal document giving official permission to do something; Array is a kind of instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document
Derived form adjective licentious1
has particulars: poetic license
Derived form verb licence1
has particulars: building permit, driver's licence, driver's license, driving licence, driving license, fishing licence, fishing license, fishing permit, game license, hunting licence, hunting license, hunting permit, learner's permit, letter of mark and reprisal, letter of marque, letters of marque, liquor licence, liquor license, marriage licence, marriage license, wedding licence, wedding license, occupation licence, occupation license, liberty chit, pass
Verb licence has 1 sense
- licence(v = verb.social) certify, license - authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" is one way to authorise, authorize, clear, pass
Derived forms noun licence2, noun licensee1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
OXFORD DICTIONARY
licence, n. (US license)
1 a permit from an authority to own or use something (esp. a dog, gun, television set, or vehicle), do something (esp. marry, print something, preach, or drive on a public road), or carry on a trade (esp. in alcoholic liquor).
2 leave, permission (have I your licence to remove the fence?).
3 a liberty of action, esp. when excessive; disregard of law or propriety, abuse of freedom. b licentiousness.
4 a writer's or artist's irregularity in grammar, metre, perspective, etc., or deviation from fact, esp. for effect (poetic licence).
5 a university certificate of competence in a faculty.
1 a permit from an authority to own or use something (esp. a dog, gun, television set, or vehicle), do something (esp. marry, print something, preach, or drive on a public road), or carry on a trade (esp. in alcoholic liquor).
2 leave, permission (have I your licence to remove the fence?).
3 a liberty of action, esp. when excessive; disregard of law or propriety, abuse of freedom. b licentiousness.
4 a writer's or artist's irregularity in grammar, metre, perspective, etc., or deviation from fact, esp. for effect (poetic licence).
5 a university certificate of competence in a faculty.
Idiom
license plate US the number plate of a licensed vehicle.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L licentia f. licere be lawful: -se by confusion with LICENSE
THESAURUS
licence
authority, authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter, credentials, departure, deviation, dispensation, disregard, divergence, entitlement, free choice, freedom, latitude, leave, liberty, nonconformity, papers, permission, permit, privilege, right
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