WARRANTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warranty mean? 

• WARRANTY (noun)
  The noun WARRANTY has 1 sense:

1. a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

  Familiarity information: WARRANTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARRANTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

guarantee; warrant; warrantee; warranty

Hypernyms ("warranty" is a kind of...):

assurance; pledge (a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warranty"):

security; surety (a guarantee that an obligation will be met)

deposit (a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met)

stock warrant (a written certificate that gives the holder the right to purchase shares of a stock for a specified price within a specified period of time)

 Context examples 

But if you think such evil of us, how comes it that you have trusted yourselves to us without warranty or safe-conduct?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)