Warrant
['wɒr(ə)nt] or ['wɔrənt]
Definition
(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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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
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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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Secure, undertake, authorize, empower, engage, support, justify, assure
ANT:Imperil, endanger, repudiate, nullify, invalidate
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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that a warrant is being served on you, denotes that you will engage in some important work which will give you great uneasiness as to its standing and profits. To see a warrant served on some one else, there will be danger of your actions bringing you into fatal quarrels or misunderstandings. You are likely to be justly indignant with the wantonness of some friend.
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Examples
- I warrant you she'd go to him fast enough without. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have been followed from London Bridge Station, and I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, he drew up his own death warrant at the same time, said Lestrade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What is your warrant for this conviction? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I'll warrant ye, said the drover, holds it and makes money out of it, and then turns round and brands the boy in his right hand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That's more than any of your Lords will give, I'LL warrant, he said and refused to attend at the ceremony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The first symptom of the disease was the death-warrant, which in no single instance had been followed by pardon or reprieve. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Grummer, procure assistance, and execute these warrants with as little delay as possible. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It almost warrants the enthusiasm of the spies of that rabble of adventurers who captured Dan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Draw up the warrants, Mr. Jinks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You'll lose your temper with the whole round of 'em, again and again; and I shall take you on a score of warrants yet, if I have luck. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nothing in the evidence warrants such a supposition, and other things show it to be untrue. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Very good,' said the magistrate, signing the warrants. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If it will, take some from Shirley; she offers largely, and warrants the article genuine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our treasure was warranted sober and honest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There's his full-length portrait, painted by himself and presented to you, warranted a likeness! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Their enthusiasm was at least warranted by the fact that they had never seen a country as good as this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No, he's warranted a pious and sober article. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The servants have applied to me for orders and directions, which I really did not feel warranted in giving. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And yet they will all feel warranted in making a wide space between me and them, as if I were a leper! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Enthused with his success, Mr. Duncan decided to enter into the manufacture and sale of addressographs on as extensive a basis as the demand for his invention warranted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He believed in liberal advertising, and he had posters printed with a picture of the reaper at the top, and below it a formal guarantee warranting the machine’s performance absolutely. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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