license

1. V-T To license a person or activity means to give official permission for the person to do something or for the activity to take place. 準許

...a proposal that would require the state to license guns the way it does cars. …提案要求政府像發(fā)駕駛證一樣發(fā)放槍支許可證。

2. N-COUNT [美國英語] →see licence