Main entry: permission, permit, license
Definition: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
Main entry: licence, license, permit
Definition: a legal document giving official permission to do something
Definition: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
Definition: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
Usage: when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near- Will Durant; the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum- Edmund Burke
Main entry: certify, licence, license
Definition: authorize officially
Usage: I am licensed to practice law in this state