wrnt.

Noun

warrant (countable and uncountable, plural warrants)

1. Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
   • Two years after the first appearance on the London stage by an English actress, a royal warrant of 1660 decreed that women rather than boys were to play all female roles.2007, Gill Perry, “Notes”, in Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theatre, 1768–1820, New Haven, Conn.; London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British...

   Synonyms:

   allowance, mandate, sanction, authority, authorization, clearance, consent, leave, license, permission

2. (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
   • a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success
3. (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
   • And also be in enactid by the auctorite aforseid that no manꝰ [man's] clerke or clerkes or other parsone or parsones do wryte or make any maner of wryting warraunt or warrauntes, upon any maner gyfte or graunte made by the Kynges Highnes or by any other his Gracys offycers as aforsaide, [...]1535–1536, “Chapter XI. An Acte Conc̉nynge Clerkes of the Signet and Privie Seale. [27 Henry VIII., c. 11]”, in The Statutes, revised edition, volumes I (Henry III. to James II. A.D. 1235–6 – 1685)...
4. (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.
   • But they [police juries] have no power to [...] issue promissory notes or warrants to cover funds which may be set aside for this purpose in future taxation without express authority from the supreme political power of the state.1896, William A. Reid, “General Power to Incur Pecuniary Liability—Public Corporations”, in A Treatise on the Law Pertaining to Corporate Finance […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Albany, N.Y.: H. B....
5. (countable) 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
6. (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
   • Several days passed away, and at length down came an order for [Harry] Bartlett to go on shore and take up his warrant for a sloop of war that was then round at Plymouth, to which place he was to make all haste to join. […] "Well, my man," said Sir Joseph [Sydney Yorke], in his usual deliberative...1854, “The Old Sailor” [pseudonym; Matthew Henry Barker], “Harry Bartlett”, in Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life, London: Whittaker and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Nottingham...

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