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Meaning license meaning

What does license mean?
Definitions in simple English

license Noun

— A license is an official piece of paper that allows you to do something, such as drive, open a business, etc. I got my driver's license when I was 16 years old.

license Verb

— The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization. It was decided to license Wikipedia under the GFDL. — Officially authorize. I am licensed to practice law in this state.

license

— noun a legal document giving official permission to do something — noun freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) — verb (= licence) authorize officially I am licensed to practice law in this state — noun (= licence) 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 — noun the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

Synonyms license synonyms

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license English » English

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Conjugation license conjugation

How do you conjugate license?

license · verb

Examples license examples

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Simple sentences

You must turn in your old license in order to get a new one.
Tom doesn't have a driver's license.
Tom has had his license suspended.
Why wouldn't you let me get a driver's license?
Tom was arrested for driving without a license.
You're still too young to get a driver's license.
Now that you are eighteen, you can get a driver's license.
You're not old enough to get a driver's license.
Your driver's license has expired.
All you need is to get a driver's license.
Did you have your photograph taken for the driver's license?
Having a driver's license is an advantage for this job.
Do you have a driver's license?
May I see your driver's license, sir?
I got a driver's license at last.
I learned to drive a car and got a driver's license when I was eighteen.
He had his license taken away because of reckless driving.

Movie subtitles

I think that movie took a lot of artistic license!
You don't need to copy my driver's license, my credit cards.
He hasn't any license on him.
They'll lose their license.
Ain't it got license plates on it?
You think you have free license to be insulting?
HAVE YOU GOT A LICENSE?
LICENSE?
The police tell us you forgot to get a license for the show.
I have a license for the original opening date.
But a new license cannot be issued without the authority of the mayor and he has gone on a trip to the interior.
You just need license plates to look like a Model T Ford.
I just seen the license.
I've been riding my preacher's auto-license number and it showed.
Turn around. I want to see your license plates.
From the time he got the marriage license, I've led a dog's life.
Are you sure he didn't get a dog's license?
Have you got a license?
With a license.
License plate number. 98 82 RG5.
The license plate number is 98 82 RG5.
What's the license plate number?
You even get a Swiss license plate.
You got to learn any man can get a wife! But it takes more'n a license and a wedding ring to hold her!
We can get the wedding ring and the marriage license at the jewelry store.
Most people that want a wedding ring want a marriage license.
You seem to forget, california law requires that you wait three days after you take out a license before you get married.
And the license number?
Have you got a license for that machine? You could be put in jail.
If it's your car, what's the license number?
Only we didn't have money enough to buy the license, remember?
I'm gonna get myself a license as a game dealer.

News and current affairs

Countries' need for better infrastructure is no license to throw prudence out the window.
Economics' richness has not been reflected in public debate because economists have taken far too much license.
Google, which is quietly testing the car-insurance waters, holds a banking license.
Anyone - parents, teachers, or even companies - can apply for a license to operate a school.
The NPT is not a license for the five original nuclear powers to cling to these weapons indefinitely.
By the time they qualify for pensions and the license to grumble, the century will be into its seventh or eighth decade.
Russia, the reasoning goes, interpreted the EU's hesitant management of the turmoil as a license to act.
In other words, beyond serving its own stakeholders, a company should accept its own role as a stakeholder in our collective future - a sort of quid pro quo for its license to operate.
The Court would be a mediator issuing binding decisions and setting standards that would regulate the legitimate rights of minorities, and would so become an global authority against not only state despotism but the license of ethnic groups.
Economists ended up practicing public administration without license.
Israel and Greece are discussing a pipeline; Turkey and Lebanon are prospecting; and Egypt is planning to license exploration.
Whoever secures the stations's license when it is opened for renewal in late March can, if he or she puts in a professional management, look forward to big revenues from advertising.
Then there is the long tradition of the court jester with license to criticize the despot by sweetening his barbs with jokes.
Hwang, for example, has lost his research license and has been banned from assuming another public post for five years.
Security concerns can no longer be treated as a license for territorial expansion.
When America faced an anthrax threat in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, officials issued a compulsory license for Cipro, the best-known antidote.
With no progress toward trying Qaddafi for war crimes, the NTC is holding him on the innocuous charge of failure to possess a camel license.
Will a user need some kind of license and obligatory insurance to operate a prosthesis?
Purchasing CDS contracts is like buying insurance on someone else's life and owning a license to kill him.
It is the job of regulators to ensure that no one is ever granted such a license.
In addition to insurance, they also provide a license to kill.
While repealing one law to satisfy his voters - and get elected - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promised new legislation that would restore undocumented workers' ability to obtain a driver's license.
Many have applied, but no license has yet been granted.
Turkey and Lebanon are prospecting; and Egypt is planning to license exploration.

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