n.
- an official authorization enabling the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, etc.
- a document entitling the holder to receive goods, money, or services.
- Finance a negotiable security allowing the holder to buy shares at a specified price at or before some future date.
- justification or authority.
- an official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer.
v.
- justify or necessitate.
- officially affirm or guarantee.
Phrase
- I
(or I'll)
warrant (you)
dated no doubt.
Derivative
- warrantable adj.
- warrantableness n.
- warrantably adv.
- warranter n.
Etymology
ME (in the senses ‘protector, safeguard’, and ‘protect from danger’): from vars of OFr. guarant (n.), guarantir (v.), of Gmc origin; cf. guarantee.