Warranted

What does WARRANTED mean?

Warranted is a form of WARRANT.

1. verb

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

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

2. noun

   a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

3. noun

   a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price

   “as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities”

4. noun

   formal and explicit approval

   “a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement”

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.