warrant

1. 1.

   provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)

   “The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns”

   Broaderjustify
2. 2.

   stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of

   “The dealer warrants all the cars he sells”

   “I warrant this information”

   Synonymsguarantee

   Broaderback

   Narrowercovercertify

Other forms of warrant

plural

warrants·

past tense

warranted·

present participle

warranting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about warrant

What does warrant mean?

warrant means "a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in warrant?

warrant has 2 syllables: war-rant. The stress falls on "war". In IPA it is /ˈwɔɹənt/.

What is another word for warrant?

Close synonyms include stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant, sanction, countenance, endorsement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is warrant a common word?

warrant is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.