American English pronunciation

How to pronounce licenses

IPA transcription: ['laɪsənsɪz]

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Noun

  • a legal document giving official permission to do something

  • freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

  • the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

  • 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

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.