Overview of noun license

The noun license has 4 senses

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


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


• 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, permission, permit -- (the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization)

Overview of verb license

The verb license has 1 sense

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