License

/ˈlaɪ.səns/ · noun

Meaning

A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit..

Definitions by Sense

1. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
2. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
3. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
4. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
5. Ellipsis of driver's license.
6. To authorize officially.
7. (transitive) (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
8. (transitive) To give permission or freedom to; accept.

Example Sentences

Hello. I would like to buy a fish licence please.

Thus, while the license will grant the user the right to use the software, a major concern is the scope of that use. For example, will the user be granted the right to copy, modify, or transfer the software?

In some instances, the author took license to include events which never happened, or to purposely create events which may run in the face of popular conjecture if the author felt it would help the story along.

I envy not the beast that takes ⁠His license in the field of time, ⁠Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; […]

When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.

In order to enter the building, I need to show my license.

I am licensed to practice law in this state.

Intruders there were in Harley Street, of whom it was not aware; but Mr and Mrs Merdle it delighted to honour. Society was aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. Society had said ‘Let us license them; let us know them.’

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Word Forms

• licenses
• licence
• licensing
• licensed

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