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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES death warrant ▪ By indulging in casual sex, many teenagers could be signing their own death warrants . search warrant signing...own death warrants ▪ By indulging in casual sex, many teenagers could be signing their ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts 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; ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In New England , a warrant is a document issued by the Board of Selectmen to call a town meeting . Warrants essentially list an agenda of items to be voted on by those present. In towns with an open town meeting , those present would consist of any and ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attorney \At*tor"ney\, n.; pl. Attorneys . [OE. aturneye, OF. atorn['e], p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See Attorn .] A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.] And will have no attorney but myself. --Shak. (Law) One ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "protector, defender," from Old North French warant "defender; surety, pledge; justifying evidence" (Old French garant ), from Frankish *warand , from Proto-Germanic *war- "to warn, guard, protect" (cognates: Old High German werento "guarantor," ...

Usage examples of warrant.

Negro, was apprehended in Tennessee on a Friday on a warrant alleging no more than a theft of a pistol, and taken to South Carolina on a Sunday.

In the next place, we are warranted by several considerations in asserting that Peter believed that down there, in the gloomy realm of shades, were gathered and detained the souls of all the dead generations.

President as Chairman of the Federal Power Commission was not warranted by its rules, and did not deprive the appointee of his title to the office.

Banning by sight, and the warrant officer and Banning had often shared a drink, they subjected him to a detailed examination of the three identity cards and finally challenged him for his password.

Citizen Barbot, that Citizeness Doucette attempted to prevent you from entering her home, even though you showed her you had a legal warrant for the arrest of her brother, Citizen Antoine Doucette?

He tramped, begged and stole, lied or threatened as the case might warrant, and drank to besottedness whenever he got the chance.

This latter case seems hardly warranted when we consider that men afflicted with hypospadias and epispadias have become fathers.

The idea that an ally was manipulatable warranted its usefulness in the achievement of pragmatic goals, and the manipulatory techniques were the procedures that supposedly rendered the ally usable.

But he was not irrigating fields, milking cows, or otherwise performing feats of agricultural masochism which might warrant such early rising.

President Towney is under arrest by civil warrant, charged with misappropriation of funds and tax evasion.

And, to avoid misconstruction, the last clause of the fifth section of said Act, which authorizes the person holding a warrant for the arrest or detention of a Fugitive Slave to summon to his aid the posse comitatus, and which declares it to be the duty of all good citizens to assist him in its execution, ought to be so amended as to expressly limit the authority and duty to cases in which there shall be resistance, or danger of resistance or rescue.

He did not doubt for a moment, any more than Passepartout, that Phileas Fogg would remain there, at least until it was time for the warrant to arrive.

And Penworth was staring at her as if some explanation was warranted for such a negative order.

They must have come to the wrong address or they must have got the warrant on perjured evidence.

Nor are we warranted in affirming a plurality of Intellectual Principles on the ground that there is one that knows and thinks and another knowing that it knows and thinks.