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| Shopping | The largest selection of LICENCE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | licence, license | Excessive freedom |
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| 2 | licence, license | Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | |
| 3 | licence, license, permit | A legal document giving official permission to do something | |
| VERB | 1 | licence, license, certify | Authorize officially |
| Sounds | lay'sahns |
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| Rhymes | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, and 264 more rhymes in ahns... |
| Meaning | Excessive freedom. Lack of due restraint. |
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| Synonyms | license |
| Broader | liberty |
| Adjectives | licentious; licentious |
| Meaning | Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech). |
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| Synonyms | license |
| Broader | liberty |
| Narrower | poetic license |
| Verbs | licence |
| Meaning | A legal document giving official permission to do something. |
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| Synonyms | license, permit |
| Category | law, jurisprudence |
| Broader | legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument |
| Narrower | building permit; driver's license, driver's licence, driving license, driving licence; fishing license, fishing licence, fishing permit; hunting license, hunting licence, hunting permit, game license; learner's permit; letter of marque, letters of marque, letter of mark and reprisal; liquor license, liquor licence; marriage license, marriage licence, wedding license, wedding licence; occupation license, occupation licence; pass, liberty chit |
| Meaning | Authorize officially. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Synonyms | license, certify |
| Contrary | decertify, derecognize, derecognise |
| Broader | authorize, authorise, pass, clear |
| Narrower | franchise; charter; accredit, recognize, recognise |
| Entails | approve, O.K., okay, sanction |
| Nouns | licence; licencee |
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