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licence in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. authorize officially
    "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
    license  licence  certify 
noun
  1. a legal document giving official permission to do something
    license  licence  permit 
  2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
    license  licence 
  3. 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
    license  licence 
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licence in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (noun) (context/Commonwealth English) Standard spelling of the noun form of license.
  2. (verb) (context/Commonwealth English) Alternative spelling of license, generally considered to be erroneous. The verb form should normally be spelt as license.
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