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 li·cense /ˈlaɪsṇ(t)s/
 執照,許可證,特許(vt.)許可,特許

 li·cense /ˈlaɪsṇ(t)s/ 名詞
 給……發許可證,批准,准許

 license
 許可證，特許

 license
 許可證 執照

 Li·cense v. t. [imp. & p. p. Licensed p. pr. & vb. n. Licensing.] To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
 Syn: -- licence, certify.
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 Li·cense n. [Written also licence.]
 1. 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.
    To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.   --P. Plowman.
 2. The document granting such permission.
 3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
    License they mean when they cry liberty.   --Milton.
 4. 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.
 Syn: -- Leave; liberty; permission.

 license
      n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
           [syn: licence, permit]
      2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
         rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
         [syn: licence]
      3: 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 [syn: licence]
      4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
         [syn: permission, permit]
      v : authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this
          state" [syn: licence, certify] [ant: decertify]