English-Thai Dictionary
licence
N การอนุญาต permission permit kan-ar-nu-yad
licence
N เสรีภาพ ความเป็นอิสระ ที่ จำ ทำ สิ่งใดสิ่งหนึ่ง se-re-pab
licence
N ใบอนุญาต bai-ar-nu-yad
licence
VT อนุญาต ยินยอม ยอมให้ ให้อำนาจ certify permit authorize endorse allow approve ar-nnu-yad
Oxford Dictionary
licence
licence |ˈlʌɪs (ə )ns |(US license ) ▶noun 1 a permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink ): a gun licence | [ as modifier ] : a television licence fee. • [ mass noun ] formal or official permission to do something: a subsidiary company manufactured cranes under licence from a Norwegian firm. 2 [ mass noun ] freedom to behave as one wishes, especially in a way which results in excessive or unacceptable behaviour: the government was criticized for giving the army too much licence. • a writer's or artist's freedom to deviate from fact, or from conventions such as grammar, for effect: artistic licence. • licentiousness. • (a licence to do something ) a reason or excuse to do something unacceptable: police say that the lenient sentence is a licence to assault. PHRASES licence to print money a very lucrative commercial activity, regarded as requiring little effort. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin licentia ‘freedom, licentiousness ’ (in medieval Latin ‘authority, permission ’), from licere ‘be lawful or permitted ’.
Oxford Thesaurus
licence
licence noun 1 a driving licence: permit, certificate, document, documentation, authorization, warrant, voucher, diploma, imprimatur; certification, credentials; pass, papers. 2 I went in dread of the beatings that teachers had licence to administer: permission, authority, discretion, right, a free hand, leave, consent, authorization, sanction, approval, assent, entitlement, privilege, prerogative, blessing, exemption, mandate; liberty, freedom; power, empowerment, dispensation; French carte blanche; informal a blank cheque; rare warranty. 3 they manufacture high-fashion footwear under licence: franchise, permission, consent, sanction, warrant, warranty, charter; seal of approval. 4 the government was criticized for giving the army too much licence: freedom, liberty, free rein, latitude, choice, option, independence, self-determination, scope, impunity, margin, leisure; French carte blanche. ANTONYMS restriction. 5 he may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn: disregard for the facts, deviation from the truth, departure from the truth; inventiveness, invention, creativity, imagination, fancy; fancifulness, resourcefulness, ingenuity, inspiration; freedom, looseness. 6 churchmen and dissenters cooperated against the licence of the age: licentiousness, dissoluteness, dissipation, debauchery, immorality, impropriety, decadence, profligacy, immoderation, intemperateness, indulgence, self-indulgence, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, lack of control, irresponsibility, abandon, laxness, laxity, disorder, disorderliness, unruliness, lawlessness, anarchy. ANTONYMS restraint, decorum.
French Dictionary
licence
licence n. f. nom féminin 1 Autorisation officielle. : Une licence d ’exportation. 2 Grade universitaire. : Une licence ès lettres, une licence en droit. tableau – grades et diplômes universitaires. 3 vieilli Débauche, dérèglement des mœurs. FORMES FAUTIVES licence. Anglicisme au sens de permis (de conduire ), de plaque (d ’immatriculation ). licence complète. Calque de « fully licensed » pour vin, bière et spiritueux. licence. Anglicisme au sens de permis de pratique (d ’un médecin ). Note Orthographique li c en c e.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
licence
li cence /láɪs (ə )ns /名詞 ⦅英 ⦆=license .