Allow and Licence

Allow

Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

Licence and allow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Licence" instead a verb "Allow".

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Licence

Licence verb - Authorize officially.

Allow and licence are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Allow" instead a verb "Licence".

Both words in one sentence

  • M could not fire Bond or allow him to resign - only revoke his licence to kill.
  • Music / Pretenders It was her love of animal rights that caused her to allow Rush Limbaugh to continue using "My City Was Gone" after initially balking at it; she donates the licence fees to PETA (who Rush sided with against the EPA on animal testing).
  • Dirty Cop Chicago copper Otto Waterhouse accepts a ten-dollar bribe, discreetly wrapped around a sample of the product, to allow the Eris Tomato Juice Company to carry on giving out free samples without a licence, immediately outside the convention of a Religious Right Moral Guardian group.
    Source: Dirty Cop
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