licence
['laisns]
n. 执照, 许证, 特许

vt. 许, 特许,

[] 许; 特许; 许证; 特许证; 执照



licence
[ noun ]

1. excessive freedom; lack of due restraint

<noun.state>
when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near
the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum

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

<noun.state>

3. a legal document giving official permission to do something

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

1. authorize officially

<verb.social> certify license
I am licensed to practice law in this state

licence \licence\ (l[imac]"sens), licenced \licenced\, licencee
\licencee\
Same as {license}, {licensed}, {licensee}.
[WordNet 1.5]


License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), n. [Written also {licence}.]
[F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob.
orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See
{Loan}, and cf. {Illicit}, {Leisure}.]
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. --Addison.

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.