Found 4 items, similar to License.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: license
lisensi
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: license
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: license
license
v : authorize officially;
“I am licensed to practice law in this
state” [syn:
licence,
certify] [ant:
decertify]
license
n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn:
licence,
permit]
2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
[syn:
licence]
3: 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 [syn:
licence]
4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
[syn:
permission,
permit]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: License
License
\Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Licensed (l[imac]"senst); p. pr. & vb. n.
Licensing.]
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to
license a man to preach. --Milton. --Shak.
Syn: licence, certify. [1913 Webster]
License
\Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), n. [Written also
licence.]
[F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob.
orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See
Loan, and cf.
Illicit,
Leisure.]
1. Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act;
especially, a formal permission from the proper
authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a
certain business, which without such permission would be
illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach,
to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating
liquors.
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To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.
--P. Plowman.
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2. The document granting such permission. --Addison.
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3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
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License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton.
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4. That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which
an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be
permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained;
as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
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Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.
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