Definition of Licensing

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authorizing, permitting; issuing of licenses

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

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Licensing Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

English English Dictionaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of License

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About

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licensing agreement
licensing fee

Thesaurus Dictionaries

WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. a legal document giving official permission to do something
(synonym) licence, permit
(hypernym) legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
(hyponym) building permit
(derivation) licence, certify
(classification) law, jurisprudence
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
(synonym) licence
(hypernym) liberty
(hyponym) poetic license
3. 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) licence
(hypernym) liberty
4. the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
(synonym) permission, permit
(hypernym) authorization, authorisation, empowerment
(hyponym) clearance
(derivation) licence, certify

Verb
1. authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
(synonym) licence, certify
(hypernym) authorize, authorise, pass, clear
(hyponym) franchise
(entail) approve, O.K., okay, sanction
(derivation) permission, permit

Licensing Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Marketing Dictionaries

MONASH Marketing Dictionary

the granting of permission by one manufacturing organisation to another to use a registered brand, symbol, process, patent, etc.

2004 (c) Copyright & Reprint Courtesy of the Dept. of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics , Monash University; edited by Mr. Don Bradmore.

Raynet Business & Marketing Glossary

contracting the right to market or manufacture another organisations products, logos, terminology, processes, distributions sytems etc.without purchasing.

Licensing Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia Dictionaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia

The verb license or grant licence means to give permission. The noun license (American English) or licence (British English, Indian English, Canadian English, Australian English) refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.