Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🛡️ A guarantee receiver ⚖️ A warrant recipient
warrantee

warrantee

7.9
A person who can get free repairs or money if a product breaks
  • noun
  • /ˌwɔːrənˈtiː/
translation icon : garantizado
  • The warrantee for the new laptop ensured that any defects would be fixed at no extra cost to the buyer.

Examples

  • As a covenantee, the warrantee was eligible for free repairs and support if any issues arose with the product.

  • From November through the New Year, Lee and I captured 11 hard felons, 18 traffic warrantees and three parole and probation absconders.

    The Black Dahlia (2006)

  • When she purchased the refrigerator, the store provided a warrantee that would cover repairs for three years.

Surface Forms

warrantee singular
warranties plural

Morphology

warrantee = warrant (transparent) = warrant + ee

The suffix '-ee' indicates a person who is the recipient of an action, making the meaning clear as one who receives a warranty.

Etymology

Warrantee comes from warrant meaning 'a promise or guarantee' plus the ending -ee, which means the person who receives something, like in employee or trainee. So a warrantee is the person who receives a warranty or guarantee for goods or services.