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licence

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1. licence - Noun

2. licence - Verb

Meaning

a legal document giving official permission to do something

freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

authorize officially

excessive freedom; lack of due restraint

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I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere – cooking is the neatest thing I do. Nigella Lawson

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children. Tim Allen

The commonplace needs no defence, Dullness is in the critic's eyes, Without a licence life evolves From some dim phase its own surprise; Under these yellow-twinkling elms, Behind these hedges trimly shorn, As in a stable once, so here It may be born, it may be born. William Plomer

I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do. Hugo Weaving

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. Gavyn Davies

Hard is a new law imposed on old licence. Italian Proverb

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