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licence

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Same as license, licensed, licensee.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, Canada standard spelling of license
  • verb UK, Canada, nonstandard Alternative form of license.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb authorize officially
  • noun a legal document giving official permission to do something
  • noun excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
  • noun freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French licence, from Latin licentia.

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Examples

  • • An unlicensed use of the word licence resulted in a flawed headline above a column on the Comment pages yesterday Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it, 7 April, page 35.

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • The Minister of Railways; Ben Schoeman, attacking what he called the licence of the Press during the 1961 session of Parliament, called Sunday

    reich12 1969

  • What I didn't like so much was the hunting about of the poor devils that had not got what they called a licence -- a printed thing giving 'em leave for to dig gold on the Crown lands.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

  • Then they would grant you what they call a licence

    Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • Amnesty International, Oxfam and Article 36, a group which co-ordinates opposition to such weapons systems, said humanitarian concerns were being ignored at the UN-sponsored talks and that they will on Wednesday call on Britain to resist US attempts to sanction what they described as a "licence to kill" with cluster bombs.

    The Guardian World News Richard Norton-Taylor 2011

  • You ` d need CRB checks for all the volunteers at £60 a pop, a health and safety certificate, insurance, an entertainment licence from the council (renewable annually) so they can have banjo lessons, a licence to sell cola bottles and panda pops from the tuck shop, a hygiene certificate to handle said cola bottles.

    How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Their use of a Creative Commons licence is designed to ensure that all of the website is reusable.

    Thank you Mr President! Round 2 2009

  • Their use of a Creative Commons licence is designed to ensure that all of the website is reusable.

    Thank you Mr President! Round 2 2009

  • You can try UltraMon out for free, but after the trial a licence is $US39. 95.

    Five Best Tools For Managing Your Multi-Monitor Setup | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Any parole officer will tell you that the first thing not to do to prisoners on licence is make their life financially harder than it is already.

    Drinking alcohol is not a crime, even for prisoners on parole Zoe Williams 2010

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