Usually means: Authorization, justification for action, search.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. warrant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. warrant, warrant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. warrant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. warrant: Vocabulary.com
  5. Warrant, warrant: Wordnik
  6. warrant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. warrant: Wiktionary
  8. warrant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. warrant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. warrant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. warrant: Dictionary.com
  12. warrant (n.), warrant (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. warrant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Warrant, Warrant (American band), Warrant (German band), Warrant (band), Warrant (film), Warrant (finance), Warrant (law), Warrant (philosophy), Warrant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Warrant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. warrant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. warrant: Rhymezone
  18. warrant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. warrant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. warrant: Free Dictionary
  21. warrant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. warrant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. warrant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  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 (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. warrant: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. warrant: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. warrant: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Derivatives (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. WARRANT: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Warrant: bizterms.net
  12. Warrant: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  13. Warrant: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  14. Warrant: Harvey Financial
  15. warrant: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Warrant: Management Dictionary
  17. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  18. Warrant: Investopedia
  19. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  20. Warrant: Securities Terminology
  21. Warrant (disambiguation), warrant: Legal dictionary
  22. Warrant (disambiguation), Warrant: Financial dictionary
  23. Warrant: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  24. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  25. Warrant: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  26. 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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