Definitions for licenses

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licenses li·cense

Spelling: [lahy-suh ns]

IPA: /ˈlaɪ səns/

Licenses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in licenses (ceeilnss).

Definitions for licenses

noun

1. formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
2. a certificate, tag, plate, etc., giving proof of such permission; official permit:
3. permission to do or not to do something.
4. intentional deviation from rule, convention, or fact, as for the sake of literary or artistic effect:
5. exceptional freedom allowed in a special situation.
6. excessive or undue freedom or liberty.
7. licentiousness.
8. the legal right to use a patent owned by another.

verb (used with object)

1. to grant authoritative permission or license to.

Origin of licenses

1325-75; Middle English licence Middle French Medieval Latin licentia authorization, Latin: freedom, equivalent to licent- (stem of licēns, present participle of licēre to be allowed) + -ia <

Examples for licenses

The young man had the presence of mind to tail Gaylard Williams out of the park and jot down his license plate.

You can still get your license at the court—just not actually get married there.

And to some extent, every one, a poet be he or a cobbler, enjoys such a license.

His license as pastor of the Baptist chapel at Bedford was issued on the 9th.

I love liberty myself, but it mustn't degenerate into license.

Adding a checkbox to a driver's license and another form would make this easy to implement.

The next step is requiring 40 hours of training prior to license approval.

Did you know that you can purchase and mill 80 percent receivers without a license?

But the license is actually got: the parson is provided: the pedant Brand is the man.

He ain't got any license to run a mile with a leg like that!