Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).

    garantieren

    гаранти́роватьgarantírovatʹ, руча́тьсяručátʹsja, поручи́тьсяporučítʹsja

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

  2. (transitive)To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.

    That tree is going to fall, I’ll warrant.

  3. (transitive)To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).

    I am warranted to search these premises fully.

  4. (transitive)To justify; to give grounds for.

    Circumstances arose that warranted the use of lethal force.

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

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To protect, keep safe (from danger).

  6. (obsolete, transitive)To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).

Examples

80 sentences
  1. We have a warrant.

    У нас є ордер. — deniko

    ruУ нас есть ордер. — marafon

  2. Do you have a warrant?

    У вас є ордер? — deniko

    ruУ Вас есть ордер? — Indigirka

  3. We've got a search warrant.

    У нас є ордер на обшук. — Anjy

    ruУ нас есть ордер на обыск. — marafon

  4. Do you have a search warrant?

    ruУ вас есть ордер на обыск? — sharptoothed

    deHaben Sie einen Durchsuchungsbefehl? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I'd like to see your warrant.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to guarantee:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to guarantee:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), f

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”).

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Forms

warrants, warranting, warranted, warranted
Base formwarrant · to warrant
3rd person singularwarrants
Present participlewarranting
Past simplewarranted
Past participlewarranted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywarrant
he, she, itwarrants

Past simpleLesson

all personswarranted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave warranted
he, she, ithas warranted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill warrant

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of:guarantee

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • a search warrant
  • search warrant
  • have a warrant

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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