n a legal document giving official permission to do something
n freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
n excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
n the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
v authorize officially
I am licensed to practice law in this state