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UK
/wˈɒɹənt/
]
[ US /ˈwɔɹənt/ ]
[ US /ˈwɔɹənt/ ]
NOUN
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
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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
as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities -
formal and explicit approval
a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement - a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
VERB
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stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
The dealer warrants all the cars he sells
I warrant this information -
provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)
The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns
How To Use warrant In A Sentence
- Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
- Minister for Defence Robert Hill talks with an Australian Army captain and warrant officer at a Middle East base.
- With this evidence at hand, one might question whether the three disjunct populations warrant classification as species rather than subspecies.
- But the rating agencies do change their minds when conditions warrant it. Principles of Corporate Finance
- CHAPTER Seventeen EMERSON was unreasonably annoyed with me for what he called my unwarranted interference. The Curse of the Pharaohs
- Besides a warrant f'r a moke was the same as a letther iv inthroduction to th 'warden iv th' pinitinchry. Mr. Dooley's Philosophy
- Most appliances come with a free oneyear warranty. The Sun
- `Just don't sell my warrant card on the black market, Larry. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- Sometimes scorn, and the expression of scorn, is warranted. The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional