American English pronunciation
How to pronounce licenses
IPA transcription: ['laɪsənsɪz]
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Noun
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a legal document giving official permission to do something
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freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
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the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
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excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; - Will Durant; - Edmund Burke
“when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near”
“the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum”
Verb
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authorize officially
“I am licensed to practice law in this state”
Usage examples
- Monotype onemaging currently also licenses Arial Unicode on its own.
- In computer software licenses, attribution of credit is sometimes a condition of licensing.
- Thousands of "licenses" have been issued.
- Criminon is also available under the name Second Chance, which licenses the Criminon materials.
- It is one of the earliest non-software free content licenses.
- In addition the company licenses the Energizer brand.
- On the other hand, the accuracy of the directory review on licenses is acknowledged.
- Doyle has stated that Eolas would offer royalty-free licenses to non-commercial entities.
- There is no federal law establishing licenses for plumbers.
- This feature is vital for complying with the attribution requirements of some copyright licenses.