Dictionary Entry
license
license is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The document granting such permission.
- 3noun
Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive verb
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
- 6noun
the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
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- 7noun
a legal document giving official permission to do something
- 8noun
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
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- 9noun
excessive freedom; lack of due restraint- Will Durant- Edmund Burke
"when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"
"the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"
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- 10verb
authorize officially
"I am licensed to practice law in this state"
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