license (
http://definr.com/license)
n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn:
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
4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
[syn:
permission,
permit]
v : authorize officially [syn:
licence,
certify] [ant:
decertify]