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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Warrants; Warrant (band); Warrant (disambiguation); Warrent
warrant
I. v. a.
1.
Guarantee, secure, answer for, make secure.
2.
Assure, vouch, avouch, declare, affirm, attest, give assurance to.
3.
Maintain, support, sanction, authorize, justify, support by authority or proof.
4.
(Law.) Secure to.
II. n.
1.
Guarantee, security, surety, pledge, warranty.
2.
Authority, commission.
3.
Permit, order, writ.
4.
Voucher.
warrant
¦ noun
1. an official authorization enabling the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, etc.
2. a document entitling the holder to receive goods, money, or services.
3. Finance a negotiable security allowing the holder to buy shares at a specified price at or before some future date.
4. justification or authority.
5. an official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer.
¦ verb
1. justify or necessitate.
2. officially affirm or guarantee.
Phrases
I (or I'll) warrant (you) dated no doubt.
Derivatives
warrantable adjective
warrantableness noun
warrantably adverb
warranter noun
Origin
ME (in the senses 'protector, safeguard', and 'protect from danger'): from vars of OFr. guarant (n.), guarantir (v.), of Gmc origin; cf. guarantee.
Warrant
·noun Right; legality; allowance.
II. Warrant ·noun That which attests or proves; a voucher.
III. Warrant ·noun That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
IV. Warrant ·noun A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
V. Warrant ·noun To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
VI. Warrant ·noun To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to Assure.
VII. Warrant ·noun To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
VIII. Warrant ·noun To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. ·see Warranty, ·noun, 2.
IX. Warrant ·noun An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. ·see Warrant officer, below.
X. Warrant ·noun A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
XI. Warrant ·noun To support by authority or proof; to Justify; to Maintain; to Sanction; as, reason warrants it.
XII. Warrant ·noun To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.
XIII. Warrant ·noun To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
XIV. Warrant ·noun That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
Wikipedia
Warrant
Warrant may refer to:
- Warrant (law), a form of specific authorization
- Arrest warrant, authorizing the arrest and detention of an individual
- Search warrant, a court order issued that authorizes law enforcement to conduct a search for evidence
- Execution warrant, a writ that authorizes the execution of a condemned person
- Warrant (philosophy), a proper justification for holding a belief
- Warrant (rhetoric), the assumption or principle that connects data to a claim
- Quo warranto, a writ requiring a person to show authority for exercising some right or power
Examples of use of warrant
1. On Friday, a search warrant and arrest warrant were issued.
2. This may warrant rationalisation of smaller forces.
3. Pounders, who signed Williamss death warrant yesterday.
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5. The government would then have three options: stop the surveillance, seek a warrant from the court, or come to Congress to explain why a warrant isn‘t possible.