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warrant
English
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), from Anglo-Norman warrant, Old Northern French warant, warand, a variant of Old French guarant, garant, garand (“assurance, guarantee; authorization, permission; protector; protection, safety”) (modern French garant), from Frankish *warand, present participle of *warjan (“to fend off; to stop, thwart”). The word is cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).
The verb is derived from Middle English warrant, waranten (“to give protection; to protect, shield; to assure, pledge, promise; to guarantee”), from Anglo-Norman warantir, warandir, warentir, and Old Northern French warandir, warantir, variant forms of Old French guarantir (“to protect”) (modern French garantir), a Romance formation from the noun guarant: see above.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w???nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w???nt/
- (NYC) IPA(key): /?w???nt/
- Hyphenation: war?rant
Noun
warrant (countable and uncountable, plural warrants)
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- (finance, 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.
- (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- (military, countable) Short for warrant officer.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- (obsolete, countable) A defender, a protector.
- (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
- Synonym: warren earth
Alternative forms
- warraunt (obsolete)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Italian: warrant
Related terms
Translations
Verb
warrant (third-person singular simple present warrants, present participle warranting, simple past and past participle warranted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
- (transitive, obsolete) To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).
- (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
- (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- warranted (adjective)
Translations
References
Further reading
- warrant (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- warrant (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- warrant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English warrant.
Noun
warrant m (invariable)
- warrant (document or certificate)
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authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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