All 7 Uses

warrant
in
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(Edited)

The effort of getting dressed warranted nothing less than a Grand Tour, she felt.
p. 73.1 *

warranted = justified or deserved
His own mother had sworn out a police warrant against him, declaring that she was afraid he would do bodily harm to her and her family.
p. 176.9

warrant = document authorizing arrest
Another time, he got angry at an exterminator who'd been hired to spray his apartment, so he punched him in the eye, banged his head on the pavement and then later, after the man had sworn out a police warrant against him, took a baseball bat and chased him around Madison Square, screaming that he was going to kill him.
p. 248.7
She took out a peace warrant against him, which meant if he came within fifty feet of her he'd be arrested.
p. 248.9

warrant = a document (granting the right to do something)
His mother took out a police warrant against him.
p. 280.5

warrant = document authorizing arrest
He moved to suppress most of the evidence seized at Mercer House the night of the shooting on the grounds that the police did not have a search warrant; the motion was denied by the Georgia Supreme Court.
p. 345.1

warrant = document giving the right (to do the thing just mentioned
It dawned on him that the sheriff would soon be arriving with a warrant for his arrest, so he pulled on a shirt and a pair of pants, climbed out a rear window, jumped into his van, and headed south on 1-95.
p. 376.7 *

warrant = document authorizing arrest

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)