Warrant vs Accounting - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between warrant and accounting

is that warrant is a protector or defender while accounting is the development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of a business or other organization.

As verbs the difference between warrant and accounting

is that warrant is to protect, keep safe (from danger) while accounting is present participle of lang=en.

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.

*: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.

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.

*: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.

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).

(label) To justify; to give grounds for.

accounting

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(wikipedia accounting) (-)

(accounting) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of a business or other organization.

A relaying of events; justification of actions.

He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.

Derived terms

* creative accounting