What does 007's license to kill have to do with that driver's license you can't wait to acquire? Both are forms of permissions conferred officially. If you’re in England, the noun ends in “c,” as in driver’s licence.
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;
Noun
the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
Noun
a legal document giving official permission to do something
Noun
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
Noun
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
Verb
authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
n.
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.
n.
The document granting such permission.
n.
Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
n.
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.
v. t.
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to;
as, to license a man to preach.
License
To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.2.
License they mean when they cry liberty.4.
License
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;
Usage Examples
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
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Other Usage ExamplesHere in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
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