Definitions for warrant

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warrant war·rant

Spelling: [wawr-uh nt, wor-]

IPA: /ˈwɔr ənt, ˈwɒr-/

Warrant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in warrant (aanrrtw).

Definitions for warrant

noun

1. authorization, sanction, or justification.
2. something that serves to give reliable or formal assurance of something; guarantee, pledge, or security. Synonyms: warranty, surety.
3. something considered as having the force of a guarantee or as being positive assurance of a thing:
4. a writing or document certifying or authorizing something, as a receipt, license, or commission. Synonyms: permit, voucher, writ, order, chit.
5. Law. an instrument, issued by a magistrate, authorizing an officer to make an arrest, seize property, make a search, or carry a judgment into execution.
6. the certificate of authority or appointment issued to an officer of the armed forces below the rank of a commissioned officer.
7. a warehouse receipt.
8. a written authorization for the payment or receipt of money:

verb (used with object)

1. to give authority to; authorize.
2. to give reason or sanction for; account for: Synonyms: justify, uphold, support, validate, vindicate.
3. to give one's word for; vouch for (often used with a clause to emphasize something asserted): Synonyms: guarantee, attest, swear.
4. to give a formal assurance, or a guarantee or promise, to or for; guarantee:
5. to guarantee the quantity, quality, and other representations of (an article, product, etc.), as to a purchaser.
6. to guarantee or secure title to (the purchaser of goods); assure indemnification against loss to.
7. Law. to guarantee title of an estate or other granted property (to a grantee).

Origin of warrant

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English warant Anglo-French; Old French guarant Germanic; compare Middle Low German warend, -ent warranty, noun use of present participle of waren to warrant; (v.) Mi

Examples for warrant

I'll warrant you have lost a dozen between Mallory's and here.

The risks are too high to warrant supporting public marriage proposals.

"If your cask is leer, I warrant your purse is full, gaffer," shouted Hordle John.

"If you will warrant the beer, I will warrant the throat," said John composedly.

Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.

But I'll warrant you there's a kitchen garden in the rear of the palace.

Not enough black films are being made to warrant a piece of the pie.

Olga was on guard as always, and categorically refused to open the door unless the police produced a warrant.

There are indeed cases of serious harassment that warrant both public scrutiny and close attention from law enforcement.

Again Kitty nodded, after looking up at him in alarm when he spoke of the warrant.