Wiktionary
alt. (context legal English) An official document that authorizes law-enforcement officials to arrest a named person and to bring that individual before a court of law or other authority. n. (context legal English) An official document that authorizes law-enforcement officials to arrest a named person and to bring that individual before a court of law or other authority.
WordNet
n. a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to apprehend an offender and bring that person to court [syn: bench warrant]
Wikipedia
An arrest warrant is a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual, or the search and seizure of an individual's property.
Usage examples of "arrest warrant".
You don't know the hell we have to go through to get an arrest warrant.
So she, her still-warm six-gun, and the childishly written arrest warrant came along ladylike, and in no time at all Longarm had her seated in the only chair on their side of the cluttered desk in the smoke-filled oak-paneled office of Marshal William Vail of the Denver District Court.
Later that day Garvin called Pendergrass in and ordered him to go to the prosecutor for an arrest warrant, basing the concealed weapons charge on the erroneous second report.
An arrest warrant had been issued five hours earlier, but Nichols wouldn't be informed of this until almost midnight.
As for that stupid Colonel Walthers, I used the arrest warrant he swore out on you to prove how stupid he was to an old drinking pal in the War Department.
As we waited in the courtroom, Harry Rex and most of the other lawyers loitering there were certain that they were debating how to handle an arrest warrant for Danny Padgitt when there was so little proof that he'd done anything wrong.