Overview of noun licence

The noun licence has 3 senses

• license, 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)


• license, licence -- (freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech))


• license, licence, permit -- (a legal document giving official permission to do something)

Overview of verb licence

The verb licence has 1 sense

• license, licence, certify -- (authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state")