| 释义 |
a license to (do something) a license to (do something)The authority or permission to do something. The pharmaceutical company treated its sole ownership of lifesaving drug's formula as a license to charge exorbitant amounts of money for it. The secret agent was granted a license to kill by the CIA.See also: licenselicense to do somethingpermission, right, or justification to do something. You have no license to behave in that manner! Who granted you license to enter my house without knocking?See also: license |