Definition of License

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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; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.

The document granting such permission.

Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.

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.

To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

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License Quotations

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
Dennis Miller

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Gene Simmons

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack

Personal liberty is not personal license.
Billy Sunday

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose

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.
David Attenborough

License Translations

license in French is licence
license in Italian is permettere, licensa
license in Latin is licentia
license in Spanish is licencia

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