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license meaning and definition
Definition and meaning of license at MeaningMonkey.org. license meaning and definition in the English Dictionary.LICENSE noun
Definition of license (noun)
- a legal document giving official permission to do something
- freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
- synonyms: 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
- synonyms: licence
- the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
- synonyms: permission, permit
LICENSE verb
Definition of license (verb)
Source: Princeton University Wordnet