Noun

• S: (n) license, licence, permit (a legal document giving official permission to do something)
• S: (n) license, licence (freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech))
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• 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
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• 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"