Meaning of license | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
   US, countable, uncountable
2. permission
3. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
   US, countable, uncountable
4. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
   US, countable, uncountable
5. leave (absence from work)
6. excuse me, pardon
7. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
   US, countable, uncountable
8. first-person singular present indicative of permisar
9. Ellipsis of driver's license.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Hello. I would like to buy a fish licence please.”

“Thus, while the license will grant the user the right to use the software, a major concern is the scope of that use. For example, will the user be granted the right to copy, modify, or transfer the software?”

“In some instances, the author took license to include events which never happened, or to purposely create events which may run in the face of popular conjecture if the author felt it would help the story along.”

“I envy not the beast that takes ⁠His license in the field of time, ⁠Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; […]”

“When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.”

“In order to enter the building, I need to show my license.”

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