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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
license
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
driver's license
license and registration
▪ May I see your license and registration, ma'am?
license plate
licensing laws
number/license/registration plate (=on a car)
▪ Did anyone see the car’s license plate?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ Gregory claims that he has already licensed this technology to a well-known player interested in multimedia applications.
▪ A handful have been licensed already, and scores are queuing.
■ NOUN
company
▪ Three of the five biggest record companies have agreed to license their music to MusicNet, a new online service.
▪ The company said licensing would give it a way out of selling very low-cost systems.
▪ Specifically, the company licenses network diagnosis software to mobile handset operators and network operators.
▪ The company already has licensed the Mac system to Motorola.
▪ A postal franker is a machine which has to be hired or purchased from supplying companies licensed by the Post Office.
▪ The department said the company violated a 1995 court order the government obtained to bar the company from anticompetitive licensing practices.
▪ Until now, the company has only licensed the technology for use in other firms' hardware and software.
▪ The company makes money by licensing its technology.
driver
▪ Notes Note A. About yourself For driver licensing purposes you are asked to declare your main forename.
law
▪ Specialist work Solicitors wishing to work as insolvency practitioners require to be licensed by the Law Society individually.
product
▪ The second question was whether the licensing authority, which licenses medicinal products, owes a duty of care to individuals.
software
▪ Specifically, the company licenses network diagnosis software to mobile handset operators and network operators.
▪ The department then licensed the software to a private company-earning $ 25, 000 every time it sells to another police department.
state
▪ Lawyers are adamant about the need to remain independent of the state so far as licensing for practice is concerned.
▪ Always be certain that your chiropractor is state licensed and reputable.
▪ After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home.
▪ The Virginia Legislature passed a law requiring such investigators operating in that state to register with a state agency and obtain licenses.
system
▪ There was no mention of the much-heralded reform of the licensing system to allow 24-hour drinking.
▪ The company already has licensed the Mac system to Motorola.
▪ Apple has been slow to license its operating system.
▪ Many consider it a monumental blunder that Apple waited until 1994 to license its operating system.
use
▪ In some cases, the same poor quality wordlist has been licensed for use by a number of different manufacturers.
▪ Until now, the company has only licensed the technology for use in other firms' hardware and software.
▪ All of this has to happen before a drug can be licensed for use in this country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Burlington said it is considering other candidates to serve as licensed operator of shoe departments in the affected stores after this year.
▪ Pilots over age 40 must renew the medical certificate required as a condition of licensing every two years.
▪ The Justice Department negotiated a settlement in 1994 of charges that Microsoft enforced anticompetitive software licensing terms computer manufacturers.
▪ The law would have changed the composition of a press supervisory board, which licenses publications, to include more reformers.
▪ The process was developed in 1953 and has been licensed out to more than 60 plants in numerous countries.
▪ Twenty-eight delightful slices of raw rock'n'roll in one neat package, licensed by reissue specialist Chady from the original Chess masters.
▪ Under the 1643 ordinance to control printing, Bachilor was appointed one of the twelve divines empowered to license books of divinity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
License

License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Licensed (l[imac]"senst); p. pr. & vb. n. Licensing.] To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
--Milton.
--Shak.

Syn: licence, certify. [1913 Webster]

License

License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), n. [Written also licence.] [F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See Loan, and cf. Illicit, Leisure.]

  1. Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.

    To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.
    --P. Plowman.

  2. The document granting such permission.
    --Addison.

  3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.

    License they mean when they cry liberty.
    --Milton.

  4. That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

    Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
license

see licence. Related: Licensed; licensing.

Wiktionary
license

n. 1 (label en US) A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit. 2 (label en US) The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software. 3 (label en US) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech). 4 (label en US) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint. 5 (label en US) An academic degree, the holder of which is called a licentiate, ranking slightly below doctorate, awarded by certain European and Latin-American universities. vb. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.

WordNet
license

v. authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: licence, certify] [ant: decertify]

license
  1. n. a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: licence, permit]

  2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: 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 [syn: licence]

  4. the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: permission, permit]

Wikipedia
License

The verb license or grant license means to give permission. The noun licence ( British, Indian, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, or South African English) or license ( American English) refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.

A license may be granted by a party ("licensor") to another party ("licensee") as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of a license is "an authorization (by the licensor) to use the licensed material (by the licensee)."

In particular, a license may be issued by authorities, to allow an activity that would otherwise be forbidden. It may require paying a fee and/or proving a capability. The requirement may also serve to keep the authorities informed on a type of activity, and to give them the opportunity to set conditions and limitations.

A licensor may grant a license under intellectual property laws to authorize a use (such as copying software or using a ( patented) invention) to a licensee, sparing the licensee from a claim of infringement brought by the licensor. A license under intellectual property commonly has several components beyond the grant itself, including a term, territory, renewal provisions, and other limitations deemed vital to the licensor.

Term: many licenses are valid for a particular length of time. This protects the licensor should the value of the license increase, or market conditions change. It also preserves enforceability by ensuring that no license extends beyond the term of the agreement.

Territory: a license may stipulate what territory the rights pertain to. For example, a license with a territory limited to "North America" (Mexico/United States/Canada) would not permit a licensee any protection from actions for use in Japan.

A shorthand definition of license is "a promise by the licensor not to sue the licensee." That means without a license any use or exploitation of intellectual property by a third party would amount to copying or infringement. Such copying would be improper and could, by using the legal system, be stopped if the intellectual property owner wanted to do so.

Intellectual property licensing plays a major role in business, academia and broadcasting. Business practices such as franchising, technology transfer, publication and character merchandising entirely depend on the licensing of intellectual property. Land licensing (proprietary licensing) and IP licensing form sub-branches of law born out of the interplay of general laws of contract and specific principles and statutory laws relating to these respective assets.

License (album)

License is the fourth studio album by Japanese pop singer Aya Ueto. It was released on March 8, 2006 on Flight Master.

Usage examples of "license".

I have ventured on a license which Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.

The doctor who caught Beane would have filed a complaint, and made sure Beane would never get licensed in this state or any other.

Fleming agreed to keep quiet if Beane quit his residency and never tried to get licensed anywhere else.

This lot also has a lot of just plain old regular bimbo boxes with license plates from all the Burbclaves.

First, did either of you see the license plate of the Bimbo Bread truck?

But the ordinance had pretty much cleared the streets of those women who had bought cheaper busking licenses and were using them to cover their other activities.

Anyway, when Dinstable and young Charity applied for the license, Chuffy smelled a rat.

She had a license to practice clairvoyance, but not to practice medicine.

Since losing its Mixed Public License last fall, it had gone to a strictly vamp cliental, and from what I heard, Kisten was actually turning a profit.

Maren Bickers, licensed court reporter and notary public for the county of Oakland, state of Michigan, under contract to Coyne Cose et al.

If I told all I should wound chaste ears, and, besides, all the colours of the painter and all the phrases of the poet could not do justice to the delirium of pleasure, the ecstasy, and the license which passed during that night, while two wax lights burnt dimly on the table like candles before the shrine of a saint.

The envelope held a marriage license for two people named Jean de Courtois and Hermione Beauregard Grandison.

The name I saw on the license was that of Jean de Courtois, an undersized Frenchman whom I know by sight, whereas my unfortunate friend is a living witness to the presence here of a man who must be of powerful build and exceptional strength.

Visitation, when their instruments are consigned, to sit with the Register, and demaunde of every minister their license, whereby you shall deprehend them which you want.

Alas, his piloting instructor, aside from being a demon on rote, had disallowed his request to double his shifts so that he might depart a Common month early with his big-ship license.