Warrant

['wɒr(ə)nt] or ['wɔrənt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts.

(noun.) a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price; 'as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.

(n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.

(n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.

(n.) Right; legality; allowance.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.

(n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.

(n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.

(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.

(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.

(n.) 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.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Guarantee, secure, answer for.[2]. Assure, vouch, avouch, declare, affirm, attest, evidence, give assurance to.[3]. Maintain, support, sanction, authorize, justify.

n. [1]. Guarantee, security, surety, pledge, warranty.[2]. Authority, commission, sanction.[3]. Permit, order, writ.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Secure, undertake, authorize, empower, engage, support, justify, assure

ANT:Imperil, endanger, repudiate, nullify, invalidate

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to guarantee or make secure: to give assurance against harm to: to authorise: to maintain: to assure.—n. that which warrants or authorises: a commission giving authority: a writ for arresting a person or for carrying a judgment into execution: security: in the army and navy a writ or authority inferior to a commission: in coal-mining under-clay.—n. Warr′andice (Scot.) warranty a clause in a deed by which the grantor binds himself to make good to the grantee the right conveyed.—adj. Warr′antable authorised by warrant or right: justifiable: of sufficient age to be hunted.—n. Warr′antableness.—adv. Warr′antably.—adj. Warr′anted.—ns. Warr′antee one to whom warrant is given; Warr′anter -or one who warrants; Warr′anting; Warr′antise (Shak.) warrant authority: promise; Warr′ant-off′icer in the army and navy an officer holding a warrant being the highest rank open to seamen and ordinary soldiers under ordinary circumstances; Warr′anty a legal warrant or deed of security: a guarantee: authority.—Warrant of arrest attachment a writ authorising the arrest of a person or the seizure of property.—Distress warrant warrant authorising distraining of goods; General warrant a warrant directed against suspected persons generally; General warranty a warranty against the claims of all and every person; Justice's warrant warrant of a justice of the peace to arrest a suspected criminal; Special warranty warrant against the claims of a particular person.

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