S: (n) license, licence (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
S: (n) license, permission, permit (the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization)
Verb
S: (v) license, licence, certify (authorize officially) "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
W: (v) decertify [Opposed to: certify] (cause to be no longer approved or accepted) "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China"