license

英 ['la?sns] 美['la?sns]
  • n. 執(zhí)照，許可證；特許
  • vt. 許可；特許；發(fā)許可證給

英英釋意

1. a legal document giving official permission to do something
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
3. 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
4. the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization