warrant
/ˈwɔɹənt/ noun C1- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof. · a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success
- An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- 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.
- A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment. · an arrest warrant issued by the court
- A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- Underclay in a coal mine.
Plural warrants
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“I’ll warrant you it was,” said Marilla emphatically.
She read Anne’s death warrant by consumption in it unless it was scrupulously obeyed.
As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death-warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her, were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.
I have been followed from London Bridge Station, and I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me.
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