warrant

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And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.

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Quick take

a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

noun

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; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities"

noun

formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for warrant.

noun

a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

noun

formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"

noun

a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

See also: guarantee, warrantee, warranty

verb

show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"

verb

stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information"

Example sentences

And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.

It is essentially a bench warrant for your arrest.

Law enforcement might get a search warrant and retrieve a copy from Google, but not from the NSA.

Based on other comments, there seems to be no issue of asset "theft".So does the minimalist design copy warrant outrage?

At any point, a no-knock warrant could be incorrectly issued for my house and I could have paramilitary troops attack.

Our answer to \nthe question of what police must do before searching a cell \nphone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple— \nget a warrant.

They are almost uniquely a product of the drug war. One can imagine very few situations outside of drugs were evidence could be so easily destroyed as to justify a no-knock warrant.

On balance, it is aimed at promoting more effective capital formation by loosening otherwise strict SEC rules when new conditions warrant.

She has had her computer and reporters notebooks confiscated and presumably copied, without a warrant.

[...] Jiang had not had clearance to such projects at Langley as an employee of the National Institute of Aerospace""A press release issued by Wolf after the arrest and copy of Jiang's arrest warrant have since disappeared off the the congressman's website.

Ortiz today: and they recognized that his conduct while a violation of the law did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases.

This is repulsive to the notion of liberty as protected by the American "4th Amendment" right of freedom from governmental inspection without an adjudicated warrant.

It was originally designed in contrast to gmail scanning your email for targeted advertising, but my imperfect memory says that their system should also have been resilient to "we have a warrant, hand over the data.

Welcome to America, where we read your private mail, track all your movements online, shoot your dogs, abuse you at the borders, put antibiotics in your food, bankrupt you when you get sick, throw you in jail with hardened criminals if you smoke a spliff, and drone-execute you with no warrant if the president doesn't like you.