license
lahy suhns
- 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
- Export license application processing deadlines were established by the Export Administration Amendments Act of 1985.
- One of the greatest neuropathologists of Europe was last week denied a license to practice medicine in New York.
- Wagenaar insists that such license-revocation laws are a step in the right direction, though critics argue that people will continue to drive, even without a license.