licence

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♦ li|cence /l'aɪsəns/ (licences)
in AM, use license
1 [N-COUNT]
A licence is an official document which gives you permission to do, use, or own something.
Payne lost his driving licence a year ago for drink-driving...
The painting was returned to Spain on a temporary import licence...
It gained a licence to operate as a bank from the Bank of England in 1981.
2 [N-UNCOUNT] also a N, N to-inf
If you say that something gives someone licence or a licence to act in a particular way, you mean that it gives them an excuse to behave in an irresponsible or excessive way.
`Dropping the charges has given racists a licence to kill,' said Jim's aunt.
3
see also poetic licence
4 [PHRASE] PHR after v
If someone does something under licence, they do it by special permission from a government or other authority.
...a company which made the Mig-21 jet fighter under licence from Russia.driv|ing li|cence (driving licences)
[N-COUNT]
A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test. (BRIT; in AM, use driver's license)po|et|ic li|cence
[N-UNCOUNT]
If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
All that stuff about catching giant fish was just a bit of poetic licence.

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