noun
a legal document giving official permission to do something
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noun
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
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noun
excessive freedom
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- 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
noun
the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
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verb
authorize officially
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- I am licensed to practice law in this state