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Licence

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of license.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. standard spelling of license

v. Alternative form of license.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Same as license, licensed, licensee.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. authorize officially

n. a legal document giving official permission to do something

n. excessive freedom; lack of due restraint

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

Word Usage

"• An unlicensed use of the word licence resulted in a flawed headline above a column on the Comment pages yesterday Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it, 7 April, page 35."

Equivalent

licenced licencee

Verb Form

licenced licences licencing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

liberty

Variant

license licensed licensee

Form

artistic licence licenced off-licence licentious free on license road fund licence poetic licence licentiate

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

license

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

license licentiousness indulgence permission rudeness extravagance coarseness ferocity sanction passport