Definition of licence in English:

licence

(US license)

noun ˈlʌɪs(ə)nsˈlaɪs(ə)ns

1A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink)
执照，许可证，特许证，营业执照（尤指经营酒类的执照）
a gun licence
持枪许可证。
as modifier a television licence fee
电视执照费。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is the official licence holder for the English, Scottish and German football associations and most of the Premiership and Nationwide League clubs.
- He expects to receive an official banking license soon.
- Apparently we needed to sign in front of an official so that our learner's license could be processed.
- A pilot's license gives them permission to knock on the door.
- Phantom was a former pirate radio station, which had tried several times to get an official radio licence.
- I wanted to have that date on my licence, and the officials said no.
- In some cases, it says that such sites have been operating without a permit or licence for more than 20 years.
- In the US it is mandatory for teenagers to receive formal training before they are given a driver's licence.
- North West Radio are expected to hold on to their licence when the new franchise winners are announced this evening.
- Virtually no account is taken of the often cruel results of losing one's licence - loss of job, and all that can follow from that.
- If you do not obtain this licence, any police officer or relevant council official can force you to move on and you may even find your way onto a blacklist.
- The licence, officially known as an International Shipping Approval, carries the right of renewal for a further 12 months.
- The aviation authority said the company could fly charters, but that license expires in two months.
- The licence grants permission to the licencee to make copies of the work.
- All stockings must first be washed in an approved disinfectant and hung on boundary gateposts together with a copy of the official licence.
- He had had no official schooling, no driver's licence, no electoral registration.
- Anglers are reminded that this competition is open to everyone and no permit or license is required.
- No tenancy or licence exists giving you permission to be there.
- Any change in the terms of this licence will require the permission of the Governors.
- They have also indicated an intention to grant a form of license, which would permit only the acceptance of clay and topsoil at the landfill for the purpose of restoration and landscaping.
Synonyms
permit, certificate, document, documentation, authorization, warrant, voucher, diploma, imprimatur
certification, credentials
pass, papers
1. 1.1mass noun Formal or official permission to do something.
  （官方或正式的）许可，准许
  a subsidiary company manufactured cranes under licence from a Norwegian firm
  一家子公司从挪威一家公司获准继续生产起重机。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So far, two ice cream manufacturers have managed to snag the official license for low-carb super-premium ice cream products.
  The system is supplied by Lockheed Martin based in New York and has also been manufactured under licence by Mitsubishi in Japan.
  She added that the franchise license from the Miss World Pageant was especially difficult to obtain.
  The automatic transmission, manufactured under licence from Renk of Ausburg in Germany, has five forward gears and one reverse gear.
  The Government said it would allow hunting to continue under licence but could not control its own party, the result being a ban of sorts.
  The method is not permitted in Australia, although permission under licence can be obtained by scientists in the UK.
  They have given us license and permission to do it.
  A number of international goods are manufactured locally under license.
  They've been given tacit permission, if not license, to hurl themselves at them.
  Most will be manufactured under license from Russia.
  Several hundred were manufactured under licence in the USSR.
  The Museum has granted Art In Motion the official license to publish its ‘Rosenfeld Collection’
  However, they cannot travel without strict permission and license from the King.
  Teams are actually franchises that operate under licence from MLB.
  The aircraft is being manufactured in Pakistan under license from Sweden, the paper said.
  Synonyms
  franchise, permission, consent, sanction, warrant, warranty, charter
  seal of approval
2mass noun Freedom to behave as one wishes, especially in a way which results in excessive or unacceptable behaviour.
自由行动权（尤指恣意妄为）
the government was criticized for giving the army too much licence
政府被指责放任军队恣意妄为。
Example sentencesExamples
- Equally important, it protects freedom from itself, tempering excesses of individual license by postulating a higher moral code.
- The unchecked power of corrupt rural officials has given them license to tax the peasants beyond endurable limits and to pack the public payroll with relatives and cronies.
- I believe that the Government has taken excessive licence from the views of the select committee.
- By avoiding the messiness of debate that a real democracy requires, we have given license to the excesses we now bemoan.
- Rather than promoting self control and continent behaviour, we are encouraging unlimited licence.
- And a nation which is treated like children will behave childishly, in perpetual reaction against its lack of licence.
Synonyms
permission, authority, discretion, right, a free hand, leave, consent, authorization, sanction, approval, assent, entitlement, privilege, prerogative, blessing, exemption, mandate
liberty, freedom
power, empowerment, dispensation
French carte blanche
informal a blank cheque
rare warranty
freedom, liberty, free rein, latitude, choice, option, independence, self-determination, scope, impunity, margin, leisure
French carte blanche
1. 2.1 A writer's or artist's freedom to deviate from fact, or from conventions such as grammar, for effect.
  （作家或艺术家追求效果时在语法、韵律或透视感等方面的）不拘一格，偏离常规
  artistic licence
  艺术上的不拘一格。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Besides, every cobweb in the room is not necessarily worth a five-paragraph description, even after you provide adequate flexibility towards artistic license.
  It's basically a bit of licence, an artist's impression.
  Though their logos still appear on game boxes it is simply artistic license; as independent entitles they have ceased to exist.
  Okay, so maybe the movie takes a little artistic license with the facts.
  I had to use other means to reach my end - invoking a writer's fictional licence in a few minor instances where I couldn't verify the facts - but reached it was.
  It also presents fantasy as fact, and for the unaware and the credulous, this is more than an exercise in poetic license; it is artistic and historical dishonesty.
  Nevertheless, the apparent mixture of fact and fantasy in this part of the composition underlines the fact that he may sometimes have indulged in artistic licence.
  Your artist friend also has taken more than slight artistic license.
  He was a playwright and memoirist who clearly believed in a writer's artistic license to embroider.
  And did you have to sort of take a bit of dramatic license with the facts?
  Although I rant, there's no doubt that creative contributions from the world's artists would be poorer in the absence of artistic license.
  Even if one forgives his poetic license with the facts, the book fails on the grounds that its arguments are incoherent.
  We have creative license as artists and we must defend this right.
  I guess Conrad's just practicing some artistic license.
  My feeling is that the writer has license to write his/her version of the truth, as it serves the work's intent, veracity, and aesthetic.
  Organizations hoping to discredit him claim he manipulates facts and stretches artistic license.
  Although there is some dramatic license, the writers and director have clearly done their research into the condition.
  Indeed, that was a wonderful exercise of licence, given the fact that the Act for hazardous substances came into force in July 2001.
  It is trickery, it is debauchery, it is an attempt to make a box office killing in the name of an artist's licence of creativity.
  The overall effect is what you're after, and artistic license forgives slight errors.
  Synonyms
  disregard for the facts, deviation from the truth, departure from the truth
  inventiveness, invention, creativity, imagination, fancy
  fancifulness, resourcefulness, ingenuity, inspiration
  freedom, looseness
2. 2.2 Licentiousness.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Telescoping the text frantically, he omits most of the low-life scenes, which show how sexual licence slides into moral anarchy.
  Outside and opposed to normal social life, liminality is also given ritual expression in licence, disorder, and role reversal.
  And the moral of the story is this: freedom without responsibility is not freedom, it's license.
  I looked for things that debased freedom, promoted license, ridiculed responsibility, and denigrated man and God - but that was all of TV.
  Torturing cats was common in several strands of European culture, as part of rituals of license and disorder.
  Synonyms
  licentiousness, dissoluteness, dissipation, debauchery, immorality, impropriety, decadence, profligacy, immoderation, intemperateness, indulgence, self-indulgence, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, lack of control, irresponsibility, abandon, laxness, laxity, disorder, disorderliness, unruliness, lawlessness, anarchy
3. 2.3a licence to do something A reason or excuse to do something unacceptable.
  police say that the lenient sentence is a licence to assault
  警方说从轻发落是人身侵害的诱因。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The licence to kill is permission, but his overwhelming charisma is the mandate.
  In particular, the province's vaguely defined outcomes-based curriculum can be seen by teachers as licence to teach whatever they wish.
  I have been rather busy since my last posting: Tom came back from his stag weekend which sadly was less debauched than he had license to be involved in.
  Giving them free license to print will result in their indiscriminate covering of the entire surface with gadget prints.
  The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place.

Usage

Note that in British English licence is the correct spelling for the noun, and is also an acceptable variant spelling of the verb. In US English both noun and verb are spelled license

Phrases

licence to print money

A very lucrative commercial activity, regarded as requiring little effort.
（尤指不费力的）赚大钱的生意
people see music publishing as a licence to print money
Example sentencesExamples
- Everyone and his dog now knows that commercial radio is a licence to print money, and they all want quick bucks.
- Being a sexy girl in a soap is a license to print money.
- For awhile, starting an Internet company and taking it public was a license to print money.
- What it's meant is handing over to them a license to print money so that they are awash with profits at the same time as being morally bankrupt.
- A private company, subsidised by the taxpayer, is given a license to print money at our expense.
- A liquor license on Whyte Avenue is generally known to be a license to print money.
- It used to be a license to print money but no more.
- And that's kind of a license to print money - particularly if you're also trying to make your service the definitive place to buy the media products themselves…
- When exploited properly it's a license to print money, capable of earning its purchase price within a few years.
- France and the UK are currently engaged in a tussle to see who controls such an agency which promises to become a license to print money for the eventual winner.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin licentia 'freedom, licentiousness' (in medieval Latin 'authority, permission'), from licere 'be lawful or permitted'.

Latin licere ‘be lawful or permitted’ is the base of licence, which came into English via Old French from Latin licentia ‘freedom, licentiousness’ which in medieval Latin came to mean ‘authority, permission’. The phrase poetic licence, meaning deviation from a recognized rule for artistic effect, is found from the early 16th century. The verb license (Late Middle English) gained its -se spelling from the pattern of noun/verb pairs such as ‘practice’ and ‘practise’. See also shake

Rhymes

delicense, license

Definition of license in US English:

license

(British licence)

nounˈlaɪs(ə)nsˈlīs(ə)ns

1A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic beverages)
执照，许可证，特许证，营业执照（尤指经营酒类的执照）
a gun license
持枪许可证。
as modifier vehicle license fees
Example sentencesExamples
- No tenancy or licence exists giving you permission to be there.
- I wanted to have that date on my licence, and the officials said no.
- Anglers are reminded that this competition is open to everyone and no permit or license is required.
- The licence grants permission to the licencee to make copies of the work.
- In some cases, it says that such sites have been operating without a permit or licence for more than 20 years.
- The licence, officially known as an International Shipping Approval, carries the right of renewal for a further 12 months.
- Apparently we needed to sign in front of an official so that our learner's license could be processed.
- North West Radio are expected to hold on to their licence when the new franchise winners are announced this evening.
- He had had no official schooling, no driver's licence, no electoral registration.
- He expects to receive an official banking license soon.
- All stockings must first be washed in an approved disinfectant and hung on boundary gateposts together with a copy of the official licence.
- In the US it is mandatory for teenagers to receive formal training before they are given a driver's licence.
- Virtually no account is taken of the often cruel results of losing one's licence - loss of job, and all that can follow from that.
- If you do not obtain this licence, any police officer or relevant council official can force you to move on and you may even find your way onto a blacklist.
- The aviation authority said the company could fly charters, but that license expires in two months.
- A pilot's license gives them permission to knock on the door.
- It is the official licence holder for the English, Scottish and German football associations and most of the Premiership and Nationwide League clubs.
- They have also indicated an intention to grant a form of license, which would permit only the acceptance of clay and topsoil at the landfill for the purpose of restoration and landscaping.
- Any change in the terms of this licence will require the permission of the Governors.
- Phantom was a former pirate radio station, which had tried several times to get an official radio licence.
1. 1.1 Formal or official permission to do something.
  （官方或正式的）许可，准许
  logging is permitted under license from the Forest Service
  Example sentencesExamples
  A number of international goods are manufactured locally under license.
  Teams are actually franchises that operate under licence from MLB.
  The Government said it would allow hunting to continue under licence but could not control its own party, the result being a ban of sorts.
  Most will be manufactured under license from Russia.
  They have given us license and permission to do it.
  They've been given tacit permission, if not license, to hurl themselves at them.
  The method is not permitted in Australia, although permission under licence can be obtained by scientists in the UK.
  She added that the franchise license from the Miss World Pageant was especially difficult to obtain.
  The aircraft is being manufactured in Pakistan under license from Sweden, the paper said.
  The automatic transmission, manufactured under licence from Renk of Ausburg in Germany, has five forward gears and one reverse gear.
  Several hundred were manufactured under licence in the USSR.
  So far, two ice cream manufacturers have managed to snag the official license for low-carb super-premium ice cream products.
  The system is supplied by Lockheed Martin based in New York and has also been manufactured under licence by Mitsubishi in Japan.
  The Museum has granted Art In Motion the official license to publish its ‘Rosenfeld Collection’
  However, they cannot travel without strict permission and license from the King.
2. 1.2 A writer's or artist's freedom to deviate from fact or from conventions such as grammar, meter, or perspective, for effect.
  （作家或艺术家追求效果时在语法、韵律或透视感等方面的）不拘一格，偏离常规
  artistic license
  艺术上的不拘一格。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It also presents fantasy as fact, and for the unaware and the credulous, this is more than an exercise in poetic license; it is artistic and historical dishonesty.
  Even if one forgives his poetic license with the facts, the book fails on the grounds that its arguments are incoherent.
  We have creative license as artists and we must defend this right.
  He was a playwright and memoirist who clearly believed in a writer's artistic license to embroider.
  Although I rant, there's no doubt that creative contributions from the world's artists would be poorer in the absence of artistic license.
  The overall effect is what you're after, and artistic license forgives slight errors.
  It's basically a bit of licence, an artist's impression.
  Organizations hoping to discredit him claim he manipulates facts and stretches artistic license.
  Indeed, that was a wonderful exercise of licence, given the fact that the Act for hazardous substances came into force in July 2001.
  Your artist friend also has taken more than slight artistic license.
  I guess Conrad's just practicing some artistic license.
  Although there is some dramatic license, the writers and director have clearly done their research into the condition.
  I had to use other means to reach my end - invoking a writer's fictional licence in a few minor instances where I couldn't verify the facts - but reached it was.
  My feeling is that the writer has license to write his/her version of the truth, as it serves the work's intent, veracity, and aesthetic.
  Nevertheless, the apparent mixture of fact and fantasy in this part of the composition underlines the fact that he may sometimes have indulged in artistic licence.
  Okay, so maybe the movie takes a little artistic license with the facts.
  It is trickery, it is debauchery, it is an attempt to make a box office killing in the name of an artist's licence of creativity.
  Besides, every cobweb in the room is not necessarily worth a five-paragraph description, even after you provide adequate flexibility towards artistic license.
  Though their logos still appear on game boxes it is simply artistic license; as independent entitles they have ceased to exist.
  And did you have to sort of take a bit of dramatic license with the facts?
3. 1.3 Freedom to behave as one wishes, especially in a way that results in excessive or unacceptable behavior.
  自由行动权（尤指恣意妄为）
  the government was criticized for giving the army too much license
  政府被指责放任军队恣意妄为。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Equally important, it protects freedom from itself, tempering excesses of individual license by postulating a higher moral code.
  Rather than promoting self control and continent behaviour, we are encouraging unlimited licence.
  And a nation which is treated like children will behave childishly, in perpetual reaction against its lack of licence.
  I believe that the Government has taken excessive licence from the views of the select committee.
  By avoiding the messiness of debate that a real democracy requires, we have given license to the excesses we now bemoan.
  The unchecked power of corrupt rural officials has given them license to tax the peasants beyond endurable limits and to pack the public payroll with relatives and cronies.
4. 1.4a license to do something A reason or excuse to do something wrong or excessive.
  （做错事的）诱因，借口
  police say that the lenient sentence is a license to assault
  警方说从轻发落是人身侵害的诱因。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In particular, the province's vaguely defined outcomes-based curriculum can be seen by teachers as licence to teach whatever they wish.
  I have been rather busy since my last posting: Tom came back from his stag weekend which sadly was less debauched than he had license to be involved in.
  The licence to kill is permission, but his overwhelming charisma is the mandate.
  The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place.
  Giving them free license to print will result in their indiscriminate covering of the entire surface with gadget prints.

verbˈlaɪs(ə)nsˈlīs(ə)ns

[with object]

1Grant a license to (someone or something) to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place.
brokers must be licensed to sell health-related insurance
with object and infinitive he ought not to have been licensed to fly a plane
Example sentencesExamples
- How low can the TV licensing authority sink in their pursuit of people not paying their licence fee?
- According to the reviews the extent of knowledge gained by such measures as performance in licensing examinations is at best unclear.
- He also confirmed that the warehouse was licensed for fireworks storage, but could not explain why it was situated dangerously close to a residential area.
- The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 requires a keeper of a dangerous wild animal to be licensed by the local authority and to take out insurance against liability to third parties.
- If you're doing that sort of activity you need to be licenced, and we'd prefer to be neutral in our approach to the particular medium that you're using to do that.
- Bars run by York University could win the right to open until the small hours - if licensing chiefs agree.
- The authority to license television stations, sanction newspapers and to regulate cell phone companies was recently transferred to a commission whose members were chosen by the US.
- He said the company would continue to work with City of York Council licensing chiefs to find a proposal that could be acceptable to all parties.
- Small films without extensive music licensing budgets would have to attract bands based on the quality of the film.
- The hotel is licensed to perform civil ceremonies and the suites can cater for up to 80 people.
- Each signed a separate agreement and each agreement provided that the licensor might also occupy the premises or might license others to occupy jointly with the licensees.
- A vehicle with seven seats or less, like a black cab, was classed as a taxi and had to be licensed by the local authority.
- I've heard reports that some of the Landfill sites accept waste that they are not licensed to accept.
- The Alberta government recently licensed a private hospital to perform hip surgery, using a facility that was closed down by the same government.
- It accuses authorities of allowing dumps to operate without a licence, 20 years after agreeing to licence them.
- Bexley Council's licensing committee was due to give the plan its approval last night.
Synonyms
permit, allow, authorize, give a licence to, grant a licence to, give a permit to, grant a permit to, give authorization to, grant authorization to, give authority to, grant authority to, give the right to, grant the right to, give leave to, grant leave to, give permission to, grant permission to
1. 1.1 Authorize the use, performance, or release of (something)
  the drug is already licensed for human use
  he was required to delete certain scenes before the film could be licensed for showing
  Example sentencesExamples
  The publishers are trying to get this changed, for until it is there are a number of authors' agents who won't let the publishers license their authors' audiobooks to audible.
  Soon after it was licensed and introduced in the US, stray cases of polio were observed within the incubation period of its administration to children.
  The new authority plans to licence all private wheel clampers by the same date.
  It revealed on Saturday how the firm was dumped amid allegations it had not made enough effort to license its sites.
  Hypericum perforatum extracts are licensed in continental Europe for the treatment of depression and anxiety.
  The result: both will soon tire of the cost and settle out-of-court, opting to license each other's intellectual property.
  If they were to have the use of these codes, they would be able to maintain, modify or even license the Object Codes.
  There were difficulties in obtaining a licence to publish the Dialogue, and soon after it was licensed at Rome the sudden death of Prince Cesi disorganized the Lincean Academy which had intended to publish it.
  If he thinks he can get money for licensing the music for this film, he'll probably do it.
  There was no way a video game maker's going to license their title for the film.
  Is it your hope that they will agree to license your technologies, or do you hope to force them to withdraw from the market?
  They're screening the film on the 18th September but haven't licensed this new soundtrack which might have created more interest.
  But that was me being short-sighted - soon, people starting asking if they could license the code for commercial use, or hire me.
  The UK licensing authorities were slow to license it for the condition.
  And since it also licenses its music for commercial use, I reasoned that film students have to eventually graduate, and will then want to pay for our music because of our earlier generosity.
  Synonyms
  permit, allow, authorize, give a licence to, grant a licence to, give a permit to, grant a permit to, give authorization to, grant authorization to, give authority to, grant authority to, give the right to, grant the right to, give leave to, grant leave to, give permission to, grant permission to
2. 1.2dated Give permission to (someone) to do something.
  with object and infinitive he was licensed to do no more than send a message
  Example sentencesExamples
  The friendship licensed him to write love-letters which he could deny were love-letters even as he nudged her into thinking that they were.
  At worst it licenses us to hate and abuse those who are different.

Phrases

license to print money

A very lucrative commercial activity, typically one perceived as requiring little effort.
（尤指不费力的）赚大钱的生意
Example sentencesExamples
- A private company, subsidised by the taxpayer, is given a license to print money at our expense.
- And that's kind of a license to print money - particularly if you're also trying to make your service the definitive place to buy the media products themselves…
- What it's meant is handing over to them a license to print money so that they are awash with profits at the same time as being morally bankrupt.
- France and the UK are currently engaged in a tussle to see who controls such an agency which promises to become a license to print money for the eventual winner.
- Everyone and his dog now knows that commercial radio is a licence to print money, and they all want quick bucks.
- A liquor license on Whyte Avenue is generally known to be a license to print money.
- It used to be a license to print money but no more.
- Being a sexy girl in a soap is a license to print money.
- For awhile, starting an Internet company and taking it public was a license to print money.
- When exploited properly it's a license to print money, capable of earning its purchase price within a few years.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin licentia ‘freedom, licentiousness’ (in medieval Latin ‘authority, permission’), from licere ‘be lawful or permitted’.

词汇	licence
释义	Definition of licence in English: licence (US license) noun ˈlʌɪs(ə)nsˈlaɪs(ə)ns 1A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink) 执照，许可证，特许证，营业执照（尤指经营酒类的执照） a gun licence 持枪许可证。 as modifier a television licence fee 电视执照费。 Example sentencesExamples It is the official licence holder for the English, Scottish and German football associations and most of the Premiership and Nationwide League clubs. He expects to receive an official banking license soon. Apparently we needed to sign in front of an official so that our learner's license could be processed. A pilot's license gives them permission to knock on the door. Phantom was a former pirate radio station, which had tried several times to get an official radio licence. I wanted to have that date on my licence, and the officials said no. In some cases, it says that such sites have been operating without a permit or licence for more than 20 years. In the US it is mandatory for teenagers to receive formal training before they are given a driver's licence. North West Radio are expected to hold on to their licence when the new franchise winners are announced this evening. Virtually no account is taken of the often cruel results of losing one's licence - loss of job, and all that can follow from that. If you do not obtain this licence, any police officer or relevant council official can force you to move on and you may even find your way onto a blacklist. The licence, officially known as an International Shipping Approval, carries the right of renewal for a further 12 months. The aviation authority said the company could fly charters, but that license expires in two months. The licence grants permission to the licencee to make copies of the work. All stockings must first be washed in an approved disinfectant and hung on boundary gateposts together with a copy of the official licence. He had had no official schooling, no driver's licence, no electoral registration. Anglers are reminded that this competition is open to everyone and no permit or license is required. No tenancy or licence exists giving you permission to be there. Any change in the terms of this licence will require the permission of the Governors. They have also indicated an intention to grant a form of license, which would permit only the acceptance of clay and topsoil at the landfill for the purpose of restoration and landscaping. Synonyms permit, certificate, document, documentation, authorization, warrant, voucher, diploma, imprimatur certification, credentials pass, papers 1.1mass noun Formal or official permission to do something. （官方或正式的）许可，准许 a subsidiary company manufactured cranes under licence from a Norwegian firm 一家子公司从挪威一家公司获准继续生产起重机。 Example sentencesExamples So far, two ice cream manufacturers have managed to snag the official license for low-carb super-premium ice cream products. The system is supplied by Lockheed Martin based in New York and has also been manufactured under licence by Mitsubishi in Japan. She added that the franchise license from the Miss World Pageant was especially difficult to obtain. The automatic transmission, manufactured under licence from Renk of Ausburg in Germany, has five forward gears and one reverse gear. The Government said it would allow hunting to continue under licence but could not control its own party, the result being a ban of sorts. The method is not permitted in Australia, although permission under licence can be obtained by scientists in the UK. They have given us license and permission to do it. A number of international goods are manufactured locally under license. They've been given tacit permission, if not license, to hurl themselves at them. Most will be manufactured under license from Russia. Several hundred were manufactured under licence in the USSR. The Museum has granted Art In Motion the official license to publish its ‘Rosenfeld Collection’ However, they cannot travel without strict permission and license from the King. Teams are actually franchises that operate under licence from MLB. The aircraft is being manufactured in Pakistan under license from Sweden, the paper said. Synonyms franchise, permission, consent, sanction, warrant, warranty, charter seal of approval 2mass noun Freedom to behave as one wishes, especially in a way which results in excessive or unacceptable behaviour. 自由行动权（尤指恣意妄为） the government was criticized for giving the army too much licence 政府被指责放任军队恣意妄为。 Example sentencesExamples Equally important, it protects freedom from itself, tempering excesses of individual license by postulating a higher moral code. The unchecked power of corrupt rural officials has given them license to tax the peasants beyond endurable limits and to pack the public payroll with relatives and cronies. I believe that the Government has taken excessive licence from the views of the select committee. By avoiding the messiness of debate that a real democracy requires, we have given license to the excesses we now bemoan. Rather than promoting self control and continent behaviour, we are encouraging unlimited licence. And a nation which is treated like children will behave childishly, in perpetual reaction against its lack of licence. Synonyms permission, authority, discretion, right, a free hand, leave, consent, authorization, sanction, approval, assent, entitlement, privilege, prerogative, blessing, exemption, mandate liberty, freedom power, empowerment, dispensation French carte blanche informal a blank cheque rare warranty freedom, liberty, free rein, latitude, choice, option, independence, self-determination, scope, impunity, margin, leisure French carte blanche 2.1 A writer's or artist's freedom to deviate from fact, or from conventions such as grammar, for effect. （作家或艺术家追求效果时在语法、韵律或透视感等方面的）不拘一格，偏离常规 artistic licence 艺术上的不拘一格。 Example sentencesExamples Besides, every cobweb in the room is not necessarily worth a five-paragraph description, even after you provide adequate flexibility towards artistic license. It's basically a bit of licence, an artist's impression. Though their logos still appear on game boxes it is simply artistic license; as independent entitles they have ceased to exist. Okay, so maybe the movie takes a little artistic license with the facts. I had to use other means to reach my end - invoking a writer's fictional licence in a few minor instances where I couldn't verify the facts - but reached it was. It also presents fantasy as fact, and for the unaware and the credulous, this is more than an exercise in poetic license; it is artistic and historical dishonesty. Nevertheless, the apparent mixture of fact and fantasy in this part of the composition underlines the fact that he may sometimes have indulged in artistic licence. Your artist friend also has taken more than slight artistic license. He was a playwright and memoirist who clearly believed in a writer's artistic license to embroider. And did you have to sort of take a bit of dramatic license with the facts? Although I rant, there's no doubt that creative contributions from the world's artists would be poorer in the absence of artistic license. Even if one forgives his poetic license with the facts, the book fails on the grounds that its arguments are incoherent. We have creative license as artists and we must defend this right. I guess Conrad's just practicing some artistic license. My feeling is that the writer has license to write his/her version of the truth, as it serves the work's intent, veracity, and aesthetic. Organizations hoping to discredit him claim he manipulates facts and stretches artistic license. Although there is some dramatic license, the writers and director have clearly done their research into the condition. Indeed, that was a wonderful exercise of licence, given the fact that the Act for hazardous substances came into force in July 2001. It is trickery, it is debauchery, it is an attempt to make a box office killing in the name of an artist's licence of creativity. The overall effect is what you're after, and artistic license forgives slight errors. Synonyms disregard for the facts, deviation from the truth, departure from the truth inventiveness, invention, creativity, imagination, fancy fancifulness, resourcefulness, ingenuity, inspiration freedom, looseness 2.2 Licentiousness. Example sentencesExamples Telescoping the text frantically, he omits most of the low-life scenes, which show how sexual licence slides into moral anarchy. Outside and opposed to normal social life, liminality is also given ritual expression in licence, disorder, and role reversal. And the moral of the story is this: freedom without responsibility is not freedom, it's license. I looked for things that debased freedom, promoted license, ridiculed responsibility, and denigrated man and God - but that was all of TV. Torturing cats was common in several strands of European culture, as part of rituals of license and disorder. Synonyms licentiousness, dissoluteness, dissipation, debauchery, immorality, impropriety, decadence, profligacy, immoderation, intemperateness, indulgence, self-indulgence, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, lack of control, irresponsibility, abandon, laxness, laxity, disorder, disorderliness, unruliness, lawlessness, anarchy 2.3a licence to do something A reason or excuse to do something unacceptable. police say that the lenient sentence is a licence to assault 警方说从轻发落是人身侵害的诱因。 Example sentencesExamples The licence to kill is permission, but his overwhelming charisma is the mandate. In particular, the province's vaguely defined outcomes-based curriculum can be seen by teachers as licence to teach whatever they wish. I have been rather busy since my last posting: Tom came back from his stag weekend which sadly was less debauched than he had license to be involved in. Giving them free license to print will result in their indiscriminate covering of the entire surface with gadget prints. The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place. Usage Note that in British English licence is the correct spelling for the noun, and is also an acceptable variant spelling of the verb. In US English both noun and verb are spelled license Phrases licence to print money A very lucrative commercial activity, regarded as requiring little effort. （尤指不费力的）赚大钱的生意 people see music publishing as a licence to print money Example sentencesExamples Everyone and his dog now knows that commercial radio is a licence to print money, and they all want quick bucks. Being a sexy girl in a soap is a license to print money. For awhile, starting an Internet company and taking it public was a license to print money. What it's meant is handing over to them a license to print money so that they are awash with profits at the same time as being morally bankrupt. A private company, subsidised by the taxpayer, is given a license to print money at our expense. A liquor license on Whyte Avenue is generally known to be a license to print money. It used to be a license to print money but no more. And that's kind of a license to print money - particularly if you're also trying to make your service the definitive place to buy the media products themselves… When exploited properly it's a license to print money, capable of earning its purchase price within a few years. France and the UK are currently engaged in a tussle to see who controls such an agency which promises to become a license to print money for the eventual winner. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin licentia 'freedom, licentiousness' (in medieval Latin 'authority, permission'), from licere 'be lawful or permitted'. Latin licere ‘be lawful or permitted’ is the base of licence, which came into English via Old French from Latin licentia ‘freedom, licentiousness’ which in medieval Latin came to mean ‘authority, permission’. The phrase poetic licence, meaning deviation from a recognized rule for artistic effect, is found from the early 16th century. The verb license (Late Middle English) gained its -se spelling from the pattern of noun/verb pairs such as ‘practice’ and ‘practise’. See also shake Rhymes delicense, license noun.1 phr. Definition of license in US English: license (British licence) nounˈlaɪs(ə)nsˈlīs(ə)ns 1A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic beverages) 执照，许可证，特许证，营业执照（尤指经营酒类的执照） a gun license 持枪许可证。 as modifier vehicle license fees Example sentencesExamples No tenancy or licence exists giving you permission to be there. I wanted to have that date on my licence, and the officials said no. Anglers are reminded that this competition is open to everyone and no permit or license is required. The licence grants permission to the licencee to make copies of the work. In some cases, it says that such sites have been operating without a permit or licence for more than 20 years. The licence, officially known as an International Shipping Approval, carries the right of renewal for a further 12 months. Apparently we needed to sign in front of an official so that our learner's license could be processed. North West Radio are expected to hold on to their licence when the new franchise winners are announced this evening. He had had no official schooling, no driver's licence, no electoral registration. He expects to receive an official banking license soon. All stockings must first be washed in an approved disinfectant and hung on boundary gateposts together with a copy of the official licence. In the US it is mandatory for teenagers to receive formal training before they are given a driver's licence. Virtually no account is taken of the often cruel results of losing one's licence - loss of job, and all that can follow from that. If you do not obtain this licence, any police officer or relevant council official can force you to move on and you may even find your way onto a blacklist. The aviation authority said the company could fly charters, but that license expires in two months. A pilot's license gives them permission to knock on the door. It is the official licence holder for the English, Scottish and German football associations and most of the Premiership and Nationwide League clubs. They have also indicated an intention to grant a form of license, which would permit only the acceptance of clay and topsoil at the landfill for the purpose of restoration and landscaping. Any change in the terms of this licence will require the permission of the Governors. Phantom was a former pirate radio station, which had tried several times to get an official radio licence. 1.1 Formal or official permission to do something. （官方或正式的）许可，准许 logging is permitted under license from the Forest Service Example sentencesExamples A number of international goods are manufactured locally under license. Teams are actually franchises that operate under licence from MLB. The Government said it would allow hunting to continue under licence but could not control its own party, the result being a ban of sorts. Most will be manufactured under license from Russia. They have given us license and permission to do it. They've been given tacit permission, if not license, to hurl themselves at them. The method is not permitted in Australia, although permission under licence can be obtained by scientists in the UK. She added that the franchise license from the Miss World Pageant was especially difficult to obtain. The aircraft is being manufactured in Pakistan under license from Sweden, the paper said. The automatic transmission, manufactured under licence from Renk of Ausburg in Germany, has five forward gears and one reverse gear. Several hundred were manufactured under licence in the USSR. So far, two ice cream manufacturers have managed to snag the official license for low-carb super-premium ice cream products. The system is supplied by Lockheed Martin based in New York and has also been manufactured under licence by Mitsubishi in Japan. The Museum has granted Art In Motion the official license to publish its ‘Rosenfeld Collection’ However, they cannot travel without strict permission and license from the King. 1.2 A writer's or artist's freedom to deviate from fact or from conventions such as grammar, meter, or perspective, for effect. （作家或艺术家追求效果时在语法、韵律或透视感等方面的）不拘一格，偏离常规 artistic license 艺术上的不拘一格。 Example sentencesExamples It also presents fantasy as fact, and for the unaware and the credulous, this is more than an exercise in poetic license; it is artistic and historical dishonesty. Even if one forgives his poetic license with the facts, the book fails on the grounds that its arguments are incoherent. We have creative license as artists and we must defend this right. He was a playwright and memoirist who clearly believed in a writer's artistic license to embroider. Although I rant, there's no doubt that creative contributions from the world's artists would be poorer in the absence of artistic license. The overall effect is what you're after, and artistic license forgives slight errors. It's basically a bit of licence, an artist's impression. Organizations hoping to discredit him claim he manipulates facts and stretches artistic license. Indeed, that was a wonderful exercise of licence, given the fact that the Act for hazardous substances came into force in July 2001. Your artist friend also has taken more than slight artistic license. I guess Conrad's just practicing some artistic license. Although there is some dramatic license, the writers and director have clearly done their research into the condition. I had to use other means to reach my end - invoking a writer's fictional licence in a few minor instances where I couldn't verify the facts - but reached it was. My feeling is that the writer has license to write his/her version of the truth, as it serves the work's intent, veracity, and aesthetic. Nevertheless, the apparent mixture of fact and fantasy in this part of the composition underlines the fact that he may sometimes have indulged in artistic licence. Okay, so maybe the movie takes a little artistic license with the facts. It is trickery, it is debauchery, it is an attempt to make a box office killing in the name of an artist's licence of creativity. Besides, every cobweb in the room is not necessarily worth a five-paragraph description, even after you provide adequate flexibility towards artistic license. Though their logos still appear on game boxes it is simply artistic license; as independent entitles they have ceased to exist. And did you have to sort of take a bit of dramatic license with the facts? 1.3 Freedom to behave as one wishes, especially in a way that results in excessive or unacceptable behavior. 自由行动权（尤指恣意妄为） the government was criticized for giving the army too much license 政府被指责放任军队恣意妄为。 Example sentencesExamples Equally important, it protects freedom from itself, tempering excesses of individual license by postulating a higher moral code. Rather than promoting self control and continent behaviour, we are encouraging unlimited licence. And a nation which is treated like children will behave childishly, in perpetual reaction against its lack of licence. I believe that the Government has taken excessive licence from the views of the select committee. By avoiding the messiness of debate that a real democracy requires, we have given license to the excesses we now bemoan. The unchecked power of corrupt rural officials has given them license to tax the peasants beyond endurable limits and to pack the public payroll with relatives and cronies. 1.4a license to do something A reason or excuse to do something wrong or excessive. （做错事的）诱因，借口 police say that the lenient sentence is a license to assault 警方说从轻发落是人身侵害的诱因。 Example sentencesExamples In particular, the province's vaguely defined outcomes-based curriculum can be seen by teachers as licence to teach whatever they wish. I have been rather busy since my last posting: Tom came back from his stag weekend which sadly was less debauched than he had license to be involved in. The licence to kill is permission, but his overwhelming charisma is the mandate. The squirearchy does not have some exclusive licence to indulge in barbarism just because grandpa thought slaughter was a sport and the tenants know their place. Giving them free license to print will result in their indiscriminate covering of the entire surface with gadget prints. verbˈlaɪs(ə)nsˈlīs(ə)ns [with object] 1Grant a license to (someone or something) to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place. brokers must be licensed to sell health-related insurance with object and infinitive he ought not to have been licensed to fly a plane Example sentencesExamples How low can the TV licensing authority sink in their pursuit of people not paying their licence fee? According to the reviews the extent of knowledge gained by such measures as performance in licensing examinations is at best unclear. He also confirmed that the warehouse was licensed for fireworks storage, but could not explain why it was situated dangerously close to a residential area. The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 requires a keeper of a dangerous wild animal to be licensed by the local authority and to take out insurance against liability to third parties. If you're doing that sort of activity you need to be licenced, and we'd prefer to be neutral in our approach to the particular medium that you're using to do that. Bars run by York University could win the right to open until the small hours - if licensing chiefs agree. The authority to license television stations, sanction newspapers and to regulate cell phone companies was recently transferred to a commission whose members were chosen by the US. He said the company would continue to work with City of York Council licensing chiefs to find a proposal that could be acceptable to all parties. Small films without extensive music licensing budgets would have to attract bands based on the quality of the film. The hotel is licensed to perform civil ceremonies and the suites can cater for up to 80 people. Each signed a separate agreement and each agreement provided that the licensor might also occupy the premises or might license others to occupy jointly with the licensees. A vehicle with seven seats or less, like a black cab, was classed as a taxi and had to be licensed by the local authority. I've heard reports that some of the Landfill sites accept waste that they are not licensed to accept. The Alberta government recently licensed a private hospital to perform hip surgery, using a facility that was closed down by the same government. It accuses authorities of allowing dumps to operate without a licence, 20 years after agreeing to licence them. Bexley Council's licensing committee was due to give the plan its approval last night. Synonyms permit, allow, authorize, give a licence to, grant a licence to, give a permit to, grant a permit to, give authorization to, grant authorization to, give authority to, grant authority to, give the right to, grant the right to, give leave to, grant leave to, give permission to, grant permission to 1.1 Authorize the use, performance, or release of (something) the drug is already licensed for human use he was required to delete certain scenes before the film could be licensed for showing Example sentencesExamples The publishers are trying to get this changed, for until it is there are a number of authors' agents who won't let the publishers license their authors' audiobooks to audible. Soon after it was licensed and introduced in the US, stray cases of polio were observed within the incubation period of its administration to children. The new authority plans to licence all private wheel clampers by the same date. It revealed on Saturday how the firm was dumped amid allegations it had not made enough effort to license its sites. Hypericum perforatum extracts are licensed in continental Europe for the treatment of depression and anxiety. The result: both will soon tire of the cost and settle out-of-court, opting to license each other's intellectual property. If they were to have the use of these codes, they would be able to maintain, modify or even license the Object Codes. There were difficulties in obtaining a licence to publish the Dialogue, and soon after it was licensed at Rome the sudden death of Prince Cesi disorganized the Lincean Academy which had intended to publish it. If he thinks he can get money for licensing the music for this film, he'll probably do it. There was no way a video game maker's going to license their title for the film. Is it your hope that they will agree to license your technologies, or do you hope to force them to withdraw from the market? They're screening the film on the 18th September but haven't licensed this new soundtrack which might have created more interest. But that was me being short-sighted - soon, people starting asking if they could license the code for commercial use, or hire me. The UK licensing authorities were slow to license it for the condition. And since it also licenses its music for commercial use, I reasoned that film students have to eventually graduate, and will then want to pay for our music because of our earlier generosity. Synonyms permit, allow, authorize, give a licence to, grant a licence to, give a permit to, grant a permit to, give authorization to, grant authorization to, give authority to, grant authority to, give the right to, grant the right to, give leave to, grant leave to, give permission to, grant permission to 1.2dated Give permission to (someone) to do something. with object and infinitive he was licensed to do no more than send a message Example sentencesExamples The friendship licensed him to write love-letters which he could deny were love-letters even as he nudged her into thinking that they were. At worst it licenses us to hate and abuse those who are different. Phrases license to print money A very lucrative commercial activity, typically one perceived as requiring little effort. （尤指不费力的）赚大钱的生意 Example sentencesExamples A private company, subsidised by the taxpayer, is given a license to print money at our expense. And that's kind of a license to print money - particularly if you're also trying to make your service the definitive place to buy the media products themselves… What it's meant is handing over to them a license to print money so that they are awash with profits at the same time as being morally bankrupt. France and the UK are currently engaged in a tussle to see who controls such an agency which promises to become a license to print money for the eventual winner. Everyone and his dog now knows that commercial radio is a licence to print money, and they all want quick bucks. A liquor license on Whyte Avenue is generally known to be a license to print money. It used to be a license to print money but no more. Being a sexy girl in a soap is a license to print money. For awhile, starting an Internet company and taking it public was a license to print money. When exploited properly it's a license to print money, capable of earning its purchase price within a few years. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin licentia ‘freedom, licentiousness’ (in medieval Latin ‘authority, permission’), from licere ‘be lawful or permitted’. noun.1 phr.
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