Usually means: Authorization, justification for action, search.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. warrant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. warrant: Merriam-Webster
  3. warrant, warrant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. warrant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. warrant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Warrant, warrant: Wordnik
  7. warrant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. warrant: Wiktionary
  9. warrant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. warrant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. warrant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. warrant: Dictionary.com
  13. warrant (n.), warrant (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. warrant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Warrant, Warrant (American band), Warrant (German band), Warrant (band), Warrant (film), Warrant (finance), Warrant (law), Warrant (philosophy), Warrant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Warrant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. warrant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. warrant: Rhymezone
  19. warrant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. warrant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. warrant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. warrant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. warrant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. warrant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. warrant: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. warrant: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. warrant: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. warrant: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Derivatives (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. WARRANT: Accounting Glossary
  11. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  12. Warrant: bizterms.net
  13. Warrant: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  14. Warrant: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  15. Warrant: Harvey Financial
  16. warrant: Finance-Glossary.com
  17. Warrant: Management Dictionary
  18. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  19. Warrant: Investopedia
  20. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  21. Warrant: Securities Terminology
  22. Warrant (disambiguation), warrant: Legal dictionary
  23. Warrant (disambiguation), Warrant: Financial dictionary
  24. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  25. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  26. Warrant: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  27. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Warrant (disambiguation), warrant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. warrant: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. warrant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
noun:  (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
noun:  (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
noun:  (finance, countable) 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.
noun:  (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
noun:  (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
noun:  (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
noun:  (obsolete, countable) A defender, a protector.
noun:  (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).
verb:  (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
verb:  (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
noun:  (military, countable) Short for warrant officer. [(military) An officer holding rank by virtue of a warrant rather than a commission.]

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