LICENCE

n. 1 leave, permission, liberty, authorization, authority, entitlement, dispensation, right, carte blanche, freedom, latitude, free choice, privilege, charter Merely being eighteen does not give you licence to do exactly as you please 2 permit, certificate, credential(s), paper(s) Bring along your driving licence 3 disregard, deviation, departure, nonconformity, non-compliance, divergence Such grammatical abnormalities are an exercise of poetic licence