Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.
Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof: a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success.
An order that serves as authorization, especially: A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
(law) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest or to execute a judgment.
A warrant officer.
A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
(finance) An option, usually with a term at issue greater than a year, usually issued together with another security, to buy other securities of the issuer.
(New Zealand) A Warrant of Fitness; a document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of safety and mechanical soundness.
Verb
(obsolete, transitive) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
(transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value etc.).
(transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.
(obsolete, transitive) To give (someone) a guarantee or assurance (of something); also, with double object, to guarantee (someone something).
(transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) warrant or sanction (to do something).
