noun. An order that serves as authorization, especially.

noun. A judicial writ authorizing the search or seizure of property, arrest of a person, or the execution of a legal judgment.

noun. A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

noun. An option to buy stock at a specified price from an issuing company.

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noun. Justification for an action or a belief; grounds.

noun. Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.

noun. Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.

noun. undefined

noun. A warrant officer.

noun. A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.

transitive verb. To provide adequate grounds for; justify or require.

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transitive verb. To guarantee (a product).

transitive verb. To guarantee (a purchaser) indemnification against damage or loss.

transitive verb. To guarantee clear title to (real property).

noun. Protector; protection; defense; safeguard.

noun. Security; guaranty; assurance; voucher; attestation; evidence; pledge; that which attests or proves.

noun. Authority; authorization; sanction; justification.

noun. 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 with authority, and thus securing him from blame, loss, or damage; hence, anything which authorizes or justifies an act; a license.

noun. Specifically— An instrument or negotiable writing authorizing a person to receive money or other things: as, a dividend warrant. See dock- warrant.

noun. In law, an instrument authorizing the officer to whom it is issued to seize or detain a person or property, or carry a judgment into execution. Some instruments used for such a purpose are, however, called writs, executions, etc., rather than warrants.

noun. In the army and navy, a writ or authority inferior to a commission. See warrant-officer.

noun. In coal-mining, underclay.

To protect; defend; safeguard; secure.

To guarantee or assure against harm; give assurance or surety to; give authority or power to do or forbear anything by which the person thus authorized or empowered is secured or saved harmless from any loss or damage which may result from such act or forbearance.

To give guaranty or assurance for, as the truth or the due performance of something; give one's word for or concerning.

To declare with assurance or without fear of contradiction or failure; assert as undoubted; pledge one's word: used in asseverations and governing a clause.

To make certain or secure; assure by warrant or guaranty.

To give a pledge or assurance in regard to; guarantee (something) to be safe, sound, genuine, or as represented: as, to warrant a horse; warranted goods.

To support by authority or proof; afford ground for; authorize; justify; sanction; support; allow.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction.

transitive verb. To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.

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transitive verb. To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.

transitive verb. To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.

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

transitive verb. 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.

noun. 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. A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

noun. 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.

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

noun. That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.

noun. That which attests or proves; a voucher.

noun. Right; legality; allowance.

noun. See in the Vocabulary.

noun. a customhouse license or authority.

noun. See under General.

noun. See under Land.

"[3] In the first of those books I introduced the term warrant 'as a name for that property -- or better, quantity -- enough of which is what makes the difference between knowledge and mere true belief."

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