Alternative and License

Alternative

Alternative noun - The power, right, or opportunity to choose.

License and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "License" instead a noun "Alternative".

License

License noun - The approval by someone in authority for the doing of something.

Alternative and license are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead a noun "License".

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Knight Rider Vanity License Plate: KITT's standard tags read KNIGHT (though there is a switch in the cockpit to flip them to an alternative).
  • Literature / Guardians of Ga'Hoole Could be excused as extreme Artistic License, but the books' information says that the series was the alternative to a nonfiction book the author wanted to write about owls, and thus she attempted to include owls' natural history.
  • Artistic License- Alternative Medicine: One episode involves Prince Charles plotting to cure all the world's illnesses by putting a drop of an extremely potent medicine into the ocean, thus (by the laws of homeopathy) making it infinitely diluted and infinitely powerful.
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