warrant | English to English Dictionary

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warrant

('w/O/r/@/nt )

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

source: wordnet30
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(noun.possession)

Example:
As a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities.

Synonym:
stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant

source: wordnet30
formal and explicit approval(noun.communication)

Synonym:
countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction

source: wordnet30
a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications(noun.communication)

Synonym:
guarantee, warrantee, warranty

source: wordnet30
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for(verb.communication)

Example:
The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns.

Synonym:
justify

source: wordnet30
stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of(verb.communication)

Example:
The dealer warrants all the cars he sells.
I warrant this information.

Synonym:
guarantee

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913