licensing

license | American Dictionary

license
noun
us/ˈlɑɪ·səns/

licensenoun (DOCUMENT)

[ C ]
an official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something:
a fishing/export/driver’s license

licensenoun (FREEDOM)

[ U ]
the freedom to break rules or principles, or to change facts, esp. when producing literature or works of art:
poetic/artistic license
license
verb[ T ]
us/ˈlɑɪ·səns/

licenseverb[T] (HAVE DOCUMENT)

to have an official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something:
She’s licensed to teach elementary school.

license | Business English

license
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈlaɪsəns/us
LAW, GOVERNMENT
to give someone official permission to do or have something:
license sb to do sthThe government is now prepared to license companies to award their own degrees.
LAW, COMMERCE, IT
to give someone permission to make, produce, or use something that you have created or that belongs to you:
license sth to sbIt would create an opportunity for type designers to license fonts to specific websites.
LAW, COMMERCE, IT
to get permission to make, produce, or use something that has been created by or belongs to another person or company, usually by paying for it:
license sth from sbThe TV company is seeking to license content from providers in every language.

Examples of license

license
The existence of such ties makes the concepts and their manipulations understood, thereby licensing their epistemic and other uses.
The transgressions that representation licenses are predicated on the representational - that is, figurative - nature of those transgressions.
There is greater tolerance for diversity in creative writing as license is given for literary purposes.
This attitude of ours is a form of "scientism" we think licensed by the track record of the scientific disciplines and institutions.
Music can be licensed under creative commons,8 meaning that the artists can determine how and for what purposes their music can be used.
For that matter, even commercial planes, which could easily be converted to military use or were evidently intended for military use, required export licenses.
Since the number is also specified in the output of the lexical rule, plural inflectional affixes cannot be combined with stems licensed by (47).
Having non-head status at some level of prosodic structure compromises a position's ability to license melodic material.
Similarly, in languages where n-words normally need to be licensed, they can sometimes appear in adjoined contexts, but fail to appear in conjoined contexts.
The number of obligatory arguments licensed by the verb indicates the level of complexity of a verb.
It will also include a special category of liquor license for music and entertainment venues separate from hotel licenses.
This motivates scalar construal which systematically limits the licensing potential of polarity triggers.
The loss of agreement clitics naturally means that pro is no longer licensed in posthead argument position.
An average business has up to four permits or licenses, with some having as many as ten.
Sales of licenses were usually for one year, although this could be extended.
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