warrant
Meaning
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- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- 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.
- A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- Short for warrant officer.
- Short for warrant officer.
- A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- (obsolete) A defender, a protector.
- Underclay in a coal mine.
Synonyms
warehouse certificate
written order
warehouse warrant
stock warrant
be worthy of
subscription warrant
stock-purchase warrant
be worth
legitimatise
certificate of subscription
give reasons
option warrant
become/stand security
job ticket
sureship
root clay
seat clay
underearth
coal sear
seat earth
warrant of apprehension
be fit for
coal clay
entitled to
laissez passer
stand security for
worthy of
Translations
mandat
garantía
garanderenFrequency
Hyphenated as
war‧rant
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈwɒɹənt/
Etymology
In summary
The noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), from Anglo-Norman warrant, Old Northern French warant, warand, a variant of Old French guarant, garant, garand (“assurance, guarantee; authorization, permission; protector; protection, safety”) (modern French garant), from Frankish *warand, present participle of *warjan (“to fend off; to stop, thwart”). The word is cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”). The verb is derived from Middle English warrant, waranten (“to give protection; to protect, shield; to assure, pledge, promise; to guarantee”), from Anglo-Norman warantir, warandir, warentir, and Old Northern French warandir, warantir, variant forms of Old French guarantir (“to protect”) (modern French garantir), a Romance formation from the noun guarant: see above.
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