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Warrant

noun

1.

A writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts.

2.

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. Synonyms: stock-purchase warrant, stock warrant.

3.

Formal and explicit approval. Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction.

4.

A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications. Synonyms: guarantee, warrantee, warranty.

verb

(past & past part. warranted; pres. part. warranting)

1.

Show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for. Synonym: justify. "The end justifies the means"

2.

Stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of. Synonym: guarantee. "I warrant this information"

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"Warrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... and be at the same time one of the smartest hands aloft should remain in the position of ship's boy. One of the elder sailors said that in all his experience he had never known but three or four cases of men being promoted from the deck except when old warrant officers were made mates and ...

— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty

... suitable nidus for germination, the primary essential of which is a sufficiency of moisture, and the duration of vitality of the embryo is a point of interest. Some seeds retain vitality for a period of many years, though there is no warrant for the popular notion that genuine "mummy wheat" will germinate; on the other hand some seeds lose vitality in little more than a year. Further, the older the seed the more slow as a general rule will germination be in starting, but there are notable exceptions. This pause, often ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various

... unequalled in every sense, but especially in its spirituous effusiveness. The faithful James was in great demand, and after a prolonged search he was found coiled up under the long-boat; an outburst of fluent profanity indicated that his condition did not warrant him being entrusted with any commission of grave, secret intricacy, so he was expeditiously stowed away in the galley for the remainder of the night, and the port watch that had just come on deck were bitterly chagrined that they were not given the chance of "liquoring up," ...

— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman

... "leave itself unfinished!" I confess I cannot see the slightest warrant for this change. ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 • Various

... affair of the comic Captain at Koepenick. The most absurd part of this absurd fraud (at least, to English eyes) is one which, oddly enough, has received comparatively little comment. I mean the point at which the Mayor asked for a warrant, and the Captain pointed to the bayonets of his soldiery and said. "These are my authority." One would have thought any one would have known that no soldier would talk like that. The dupes were blamed for not knowing that the man wore the wrong cap or the wrong ...

— All Things Considered • G. K. Chesterton

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