Licence

n. permit, certificate; authority; authorization; freedom (action, belief, etc.); unrestraint, immoderation (alternate spelling for license)

v. issue a license, grant a permit; authorize, permit, allow

To license or grant license is to give permission. A license (also spelled licence) is the document demonstrating that permission. License may be granted by a party ("licensor") to another party ("licensee") as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of a license is "a promise (by the licensor) not to sue (the licensee)."
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Noun
1. 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
(synonym) license
(hypernym) liberty
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
(synonym) license
(hypernym) liberty
(hyponym) poetic license
(derivation) license, certify
3. a legal document giving official permission to do something
(synonym) license, permit
(hypernym) legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
(hyponym) building permit
(classification) law, jurisprudence
Verb
1. authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
(synonym) license, certify
(hypernym) authorize, authorise, pass, clear
(hyponym) franchise
(entail) approve, O.K., okay, sanction
(derivation) licensee, licencee

n. license, licentiousness

Permission to carry out an act that would otherwise be considered illegal