All 8 Uses

warrant
in
The Hunt for Red October
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A michman (warrant officer) shut the second hatch and with a powerful spin turned the locking wheel as far as it would go.†
Chpt 1. *
The strength of his enlisted crew, unlike that of Western crews, resided much more in his eleven michmanyy (warrant officers) than in his glavnyy starshini (senior petty officers).†
Chpt 1.
This situation is at the least unsettling, and at the most a grave and wholly unwarranted provocation.†
Chpt 8. *

unwarranted = not justified

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarranted means not and reverses the meaning of warranted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
The Forgers' ESM pods would sense this at once, reporting to their pilots that their death warrant had been written but not yet signed.†
Chpt 10.
The warrant officer raced back to throw the proper switches, cursing his change of orders.†
Chpt 13.
The warrant officer was the last man out of the compartment.†
Chpt 13.
If Henderson spills anything to them he'll be signing his own death warrant.†
Chpt 16.
The forty-year-old warrant officer pressed the headphones against his ears.†
Chpt 17.

Definitions:

(1) (warrant as in: has a warrant to...)
a document (granting the right to do something)
for example:
- a document signed by a judge giving police the right to search a home
- a document signed by a judge giving police the right to arrest someone
- a document giving someone the right to buy stock shares at a given price by a given date
- a voucher documenting the right to receive payment
(2) (warrant as in: serious enough to warrant surgery)
to justify (make an action reasonable or necessary)
(3) (warrant as in: I warrant it)
to promise, guarantee, or indicate certainty of something
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)