Meaning of warrant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
   countable, uncountable
2. Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
   countable
3. An authorization issued by a judge or magistrate allowing an officer to do something, such as search a premises or arrest a person.
4. An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
   countable
5. something that gives authority, especially a legal document giving the police the authority for searching someone's house, arresting someone etc. The police have a warrant for his arrest. lasbrief أمْر رَسْمي، إجازَه пълномощно mandato příkaz die Vollmacht dommerkendelse ένταλμαorden judicial volitus اجازه valtuudet mandatצו अधिकारपत्र garancija végrehajtási parancs surat perintah heimild, leyfi mandato 令状 허가증, 인가서 orderis orderis; pilnvara waran bevelschrift, machtiginghjemmel, -ordre nakaz ...
   especially
6. An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
   countable
7. An order that serves as authorization, especially:a. Law A judicial writ authorizing the search or seizure of property, arrest of a person, or the execution of a legal judgment.
   Law
8. Justification for an action or a belief; grounds: "The difficulty of predicting the future is no warrant to ignore it" (Brian Hayes).
9. A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
   countable
10. Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.
11. Ellipsis of warrant officer.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis
12. A warrant officer.
13. A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
    countable
14. To provide adequate grounds for; justify or require: What could he have done that would warrant such a punishment?
15. A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
    New-Zealand, countable
16. To guarantee (a product).
17. A defender, a protector.
    countable, obsolete
18. Law To guarantee clear title to (real property).
    Law
19. Underclay in a coal mine.
    uncountable
20. anything that gives authority for an action or decision; authorization; sanction

Equivalents

Examples

“Two years after the first appearance on the London stage by an English actress, a royal warrant of 1660 decreed that women rather than boys were to play all female roles.”

“a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success”

“The brazen serpent, lifted up in the centre of Israel's camp, with the publick declaration of its use, was a sufficient warrant to every man, when bitten by a fiery serpent, to look unto it. But [...] if any looked without at all expecting a cure according to the word of the Lord, they must have perished; not for want of a warrant to believe; but because they did not submit to the wisdom and authority of God, or rely on his faithfulness and mercy, in this appointed way of preservation.”

“"None. But," said Francesca, hesitatingly, "will not Lord Avonleigh need some warrant for the truth of this history?"”

“He almost gives his failings as a warrant for his greatness.”

“And also be in enactid by the auctorite aforseid that no manꝰ [man's] clerke or clerkes or other parsone or parsones do wryte or make any maner of wryting warraunt or warrauntes, upon any maner gyfte or graunte made by the Kynges Highnes or by any other his Gracys offycers as aforsaide, [...]”

“A Warraunt to Sir Edmond Peckham Knight, for twenty Pounds to be delivered to Fraunces Pitche, being ſent with Lettres to the Quene's Ambaſſador reſydent with the Frenche King.”

“But they [police juries] have no power to [...] issue promissory notes or warrants to cover funds which may be set aside for this purpose in future taxation without express authority from the supreme political power of the state.”

“The first Eurobond offering was for Crédit National who issued $50m 13.75% five-year notes with six-month warrants to purchase the same principal amount of 13.75% ten-year bonds. The cum-warrant price of the note quickly rose to 105.5% in a rising market, yet the warrants alone were quoted at $15.”

“an arrest warrant issued by the court”

“Mr. Musso said he desired to make an application at this stage on behalf of the accused, namely, that he be discharged on the ground that he was improperly held in custody, there being no warrant issued by the Court and no counter-signature to any warrant by the Senior-Consul. At the last hearing the fact was disclosed that the accused was arrested without a warrant.”

“Avina: Former Spectre agent Saren Arterius is nearing the vicinity of the Council Camber. Avina: A warrant has been issued for his arrest, though Citadel Security is unable to respond at this time.”

“[Dave T.] Daniels also stated that many supported the idea of an officers indoctrination course, with the aim of preparing warrants for broader responsibility.”

“Several days passed away, and at length down came an order for [Harry] Bartlett to go on shore and take up his warrant for a sloop of war that was then round at Plymouth, to which place he was to make all haste to join. […] "Well, my man," said Sir Joseph [Sydney Yorke], in his usual deliberative manner, "and so it has pleased the powers aloft to reward your deserts, and you are now a warrant officer."”

“Some years ago he had bought a motor vehicle with a warrant issued the same day only to find that the hand brake was not functioning properly and only one brake drum had any lining on it. He had recently heard of a similar case of a vehicle which had been issued with a warrant by the Christchurch City Council testing station, and the purchaser had to pay $60 to have the hand brake and hydraulic brake equipment fixed and the brakes relined.”

“She had inherited from Rufus a 1994 Nissan Vanette that routinely failed its warrant and was always breaking down;”

“And whanne I ſawe her makynge ſuche dole / I asked her who ſlewe her lorde ¶ Syre ſhe ſaid the falſest knyght of the world now lyuyng and he is the mooſt vylayne that euer man herd ſpeke of / and his name is ſir Breuſe ſaunce pyte / thenne for pyte I made the damoyſel to lepe on her palfroy / and I promyſed her to be her waraunt / and to helpe her to entyere her lord”

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