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Office vs Warrant - What's the difference?

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Office is a related term of warrant.


As nouns the difference between office and warrant

is that office is a building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed while warrant is (label) a protector or defender.

As a verb warrant is

to protect, keep safe (from danger).

office

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
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  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office , under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
  • A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
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  • A charge or trust; a function.
  • *(Bible), (w) xi. 13
  • *:Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office .
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.
  • *(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
  • *:In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
  • Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.
  • Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.
  • *(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
  • *:This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.
  • A major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.
  • (lb) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from human relations.
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  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I would I could do a good office between you.
  • *Doctrine and Covenants 25: 5 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981
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  • *1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.144
  • *:there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.
  • (lb) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:As for the offices , let them stand at distance.
  • *1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , III:
  • *:A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices .
  • An office suite; a collection of work?related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name).
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    warrant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * warraunt (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), (warant), (warand) ( = (etyl) guarant > modern (garant)), present participle of a Romance verb from (etyl) *(term).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A protector or defender.
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  • *:And whanne I sawe her makynge suche dole / I asked her who slewe her lorde ¶ Syre she said the falsest knyght of the world now lyuyng/ and his name is sir Breuse saunce pyte / thenne for pyte I made the damoysel to lepe on her palfroy / and I promysed her to be her waraunt / and to helpe her to entyere her lord
  • Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.
  • Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof: a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success.
  • *Garry Wills:
  • *:He almost gives his failings as a warrant for his greatness.
  • An order that serves as authorization, especially: A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
  • (label) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest or to execute a judgment.
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  • A warrant officer.
  • #A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
  • (label) An option, usually with a term at issue greater than a year, usually issued together with another security, to buy other securities of the issuer.
  • (label) A Warrant of Fitness; a document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of safety and mechanical soundness.
  • Derived terms
    * warrant card * death warrant

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), (warantir), (warandir) ( = (etyl) guarantir > modern (garantir)), a Romance formation from the noun, Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

  • To protect, keep safe (from danger).
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.44:
  • *:all honest meanes for a man to warrant himselfe from evils are not onely tolerable, but commendable.
  • (label) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value etc.).
  • *1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • *:His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
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  • *:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
  • (label) To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.
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  • To give (someone) a guarantee or assurance (of something); also, with double object, to guarantee (someone something).
  • *, II.ii.1.1:
  • *:Crato, in a consultation of his for a noble patient, tells him plainly, that if his highness will keep but a good diet, he will warrant him his former health.
  • (label) To authorize; to give (someone) warrant or sanction (to do something).
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  • (label) To justify; to give grounds for.
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