1. [noun] (British) (Canada) (Australia) standard spelling of license
2. [verb] (UK) (Canada) (nonstandard) Alternative form of license
3. [noun] 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. [noun] Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
5. [noun] A legal document giving official permission to do something.
6. [verb] Authorize officially; 'I am licensed to practice law in this state'.