warrant
IPA: wˈɔrʌnt
noun
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- (finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- (obsolete, countable) A defender, a protector.
- (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
- (military, countable) Short for warrant officer. [(military) An officer holding rank by virtue of a warrant rather than a commission.]
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
- (transitive, obsolete) To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).
- (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
- (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
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Examples of "warrant" in Sentences
- He denies to receive warrant.
- The admonition is thoroughly warranted.
- He received the warrant from the court.
- The justification is known as the warrant.
- This warrant lists the names of the GCBs and KCBs.
- But the warrant is unlikely to be enforced in Israel.
- 'They have what they call a warrant to search for you.'
- The warrant protects the executioner from the charge of murder.
- The backing of an argument supports the validity of the warrant.
- The severity of this disease frequently warrants hospitalization.
- The government was then required to get a warrant to execute a wiretap.
- The bulk of the evidence for the arrest warrant was Lawrence's statement.
- If phone calls are taped, either a warrant is necessary or it must be announced.
- The arrest warrant is dismissed; the extradition becomes moot and Polanski is released where he is at ..
- As long as a search warrant is required to access the information and as long as nobody is compelled to set something up.
- If the execution is not carried out by tomorrow, the state will need a new death warrant from the Arizona supreme court, which could take months.
- So you believe that, if a legitimate search warrant is served at a particular time and people-other-than-those named on the warrant are there, that these folks should be … what?
- So you believe that, if a legitimate search warrant is served at a particular time and people-other-than-those named on the warrant are there, that these folks should be†¦ what?
- Suppose we use the term warrant 'to denote that further quality or quantity (perhaps it comes in degrees), whatever precisely it may be, enough of which distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief.
- [3] In the first of those books I introduced the term warrant 'as a name for that property -- or better, quantity -- enough of which is what makes the difference between knowledge and mere true belief.
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