- Formal permission - Formally allow - Give authority for - Grant permit to - Permit - Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act;
especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform
certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such
permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to
preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating
liquors. - The document granting such permission.