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Meaning of license

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  license
      n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
           [syn: {license}, {licence}, {permit}]
      2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
         rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn:
         {license}, {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: {license}, {licence}]
      4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
         [syn: {license}, {permission}, {permit}]
      v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in
           this state" [syn: {license}, {licence}, {certify}] [ant:
           {decertify}, {derecognise}, {derecognize}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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