search warrant
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- noun
- /sɜːrʧ ˈwɔːrənt/
- Formal
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orden de registro
- We have a court-ordered search warrant, and we will execute it.
- obtain a search warrant
- execute a search warrant
- require a search warrant
How long would it take from decision point of let's get a search warrant together to executing the search warrant?
- How long would it take from decision point of let's get a search warrant together to executing the search warrant?
- Once they get a a search warrant, anything they find they can use.
- Whereas with gold, all they need is a search warrant and they can certainly seize, you know, gold from a vault.
- He's the tac team is doing more search warrants now than ever.
- Warrants, search warrants or arrest warrants.
- And they apparently got a judge approved the search warrant.
Examples
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If all goes well, your search warrant will be dropped.
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I could get a search warrant.
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Once they get a a search warrant, anything they find they can use.
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- We have a search warrant.
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We're waiting on a search warrant.
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Officers are en route to his home with a search warrant.
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The guidelines required department staff to obtain a search warrant before searching residential property as part of a criminal investigation.
Academic text (2003) -
Joint state and federal execution of search warrants appears to be exceedingly common.
Academic text (2018) -
Further access to gather evidence of arson, however, requires a search warrant based on traditional criminal probable cause.
Academic text (1990) -
The detectives presented a search warrant before entering the suspect's apartment.
Synonyms
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An official paper that gives permission to do something, for example a court order
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'warrant' is an official permission and 'search' specifies the action permitted, so a 'search warrant' = an official document permitting a search. This is a standard noun-noun legal compound found cross-linguistically (e.g., French ordre de perquisition, Spanish orden de registro), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the full meaning.
Etymology
Search warrant comes from the simple scene where a judge writes a paper that lets police search a home, and warrant is the judge's written order. So today a search warrant is 'an official paper' that gives police permission to look for evidence.