artistic license

ar·tis·tic li·cense

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Definitions of artistic license words

noun Technical meaning of artistic license (legal) The open source license applicable to Perl. 1
noun artistic license Alternative spelling of artistic licence. 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.

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