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license
noun
1 license
A legal document giving official permission to do something.
synonyms: licence, permit.
Roget 927a:
exemption,
freedom,
irresponsibility,
immunity,
liberty,
license,
release,
exoneration,
excuse,
dispensation,
absolution,
franchise,
renunciation,
discharge;
exculpation
etc.
970.
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Roget 924:
due,
dueness;
right,
privilege,
prerogative,
prescription,
title,
claim,
pretension,
demand,
birthright.
immunity,
license,
liberty,
franchise;
vested interest,
vested right.
sanction,
authority,
warranty,
charter;
warrant
etc.
(permission)
760;
constitution
etc.
(law)
963;
tenure;
bond
etc.
(security)
771.
claimant,
appellant;
plaintiff
etc.
938.
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Roget 748:
freedom,
liberty,
independence;
license
etc.
(permission)
760;
facility
etc.
705.
scope,
range,
latitude,
play;
free play,
full play,
free scope,
full scope;
free stage and no favor;
swing,
full swing,
elbowroom,
margin,
rope,
wide berth;
Liberty Hall.
franchise,
denization†;
free man,
freed man,
livery man;
denizen.
autonomy,
self-government,
liberalism,
free trade;
noninterference
etc.
706;
Monroe Doctrine [U.S.].
immunity,
exemption;
emancipation
etc.
(liberation)
750;
enfranchisement,
affranchisement†.
free land,
freehold;
allodium†;
frankalmoigne [Fr.],
mortmain [Fr.].
bushwhacker;
freelance,
free thinker,
free trader;
independent.
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Roget 738:
laxity;
laxness,
looseness,
slackness;
toleration
etc.
(lenity)
740;
freedom
etc.
748.
anarchy,
interregnum;
relaxation;
loosening
etc.
v.;
remission;
dead letter,
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
misrule;
license,
licentiousness;
insubordination
etc.
(disobedience)
742;
lynch law
etc.
(illegality)
964;
nihilism,
reign of violence.
[Deprivation of power]
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication.
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Dutch: licentie, vergunning
Polish: glejt, pozwolenie, zezwolenie
2 license
Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
synonym: licence.
Dutch: vergunning
3 license
Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint:
— When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
— The intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum.
synonym: licence.
Dutch: bandeloosheid
Polish: swawola, niezdyscyplinowanie, woluntaryzm
4 license
The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
synonyms: permission, permit.
Roget 760:
permission,
leave;
allowance,
sufferance;
tolerance,
toleration;
liberty,
law,
license,
concession,
grace;
indulgence
etc.
(lenity)
740;
favor,
dispensation,
exemption,
release;
connivance;
vouchsafement†.
authorization,
warranty,
accordance,
admission.
permit,
warrant,
brevet,
precept,
sanction,
authority,
firman;
hukm†;
pass,
passport;
furlough,
license,
carte blanche [Fr.],
ticket of leave;
grant,
charter;
patent,
letters patent.
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Dutch: toelating, inwilliging, permissie, toestemming, verlof
Polish: licencjonowanie
verb
1 license
Authorize officially:
— I am licensed to practice law in this state.
synonyms: certify, licence.
Roget 927a:
be exempt
etc.
adj..
exempt,
release,
acquit,
discharge,
quitclaim,
remise,
remit;
free,
set at liberty,
let off,
pass over,
spare,
excuse,
dispense with,
give dispensation,
license;
stretch a point;
absolve
etc.
(forgive)
918;
exonerate
etc.
(exculpate)
970;
save the necessity.
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Roget 760:
permit;
give permission
etc.
n.,
give power;
let,
allow,
admit;
suffer,
bear with,
tolerate,
recognize;
concede
etc.
762;
accord,
vouchsafe,
favor,
humor,
gratify,
indulge,
stretch a point;
wink at,
connive at;
shut one's eyes to.
grant,
empower,
charter,
enfranchise,
privilege,
confer a privilege,
license,
authorize,
warrant;
sanction;
intrust
etc.
(commission)
755.
give carte blanche [Fr.],
give the reins to,
give scope to
etc.
(freedom)
748;
leave alone,
leave it to one,
leave the door open;
open the door to,
open the flood gates;
give a loose to.
let off;
absolve
etc.
(acquit)
970;
release,
exonerate,
dispense with.
ask permission,
beg permission,
request permission,
ask leave,
beg leave,
request leave.
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Dutch: toekennen, vergunning
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