death warrant

1. 1.

   a warrant to execute the death sentence

   Broaderwarrant

   law

Questions about death warrant

What does death warrant mean?

death warrant means "a warrant to execute the death sentence".

Is death warrant a common word?

death warrant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.