licença
Meaning
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- (feminine) license; permit (legal document giving official permission to do something)
- (feminine) authorization; permission
- (feminine) permission given to an employee to miss work for some time (due to ill health, for example); leave
Frequency
Hyphenated as
li‧cen‧ça
Pronounced as (IPA)
/liˈsẽ.sɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese lecença, from Latin licentia (“license; freedom; liberty”), from licēns (“allowing, permitting”), present participle of licet (“allow”).
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