Cheque vs. Warrant — What's the Difference?

A cheque, or check (American English; see spelling differences), is a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, known as the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing or checking account) where their money is held.

A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or another body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice

An order to a bank to pay a stated sum from the drawer's account, written on a specially printed form

Justification or authority for an action, belief, or feeling

Variant of check.

An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer.

A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.

Justify or necessitate (a course of action)

Obsolete form of chequy

Officially affirm or guarantee

See Check.

(Law) A judicial writ authorizing the search or seizure of property, arrest of a person, or the execution of a legal judgment.

A written order directing a bank to pay money;

A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

Withdraw money by writing a check

An option to buy stock at a specified price from an issuing company.

Justification for an action or a belief; grounds

Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof

Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.

A warrant officer.

A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.

To provide adequate grounds for; justify or require

To guarantee (a product).

To guarantee (a purchaser) indemnification against damage or loss.

(Law) To guarantee clear title to (real property).

Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.

(countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.

(countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.

A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.

(countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.

A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.

A defender, a protector.

Underclay in a coal mine.

To protect, keep safe (from danger).

To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).

(transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).

(transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.

(transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).

(transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.

That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.

A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.

A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.

That which attests or proves; a voucher.

An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.

Right; legality; allowance.

To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.

To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.

To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.

To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.

A writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts

A type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price;

Formal and explicit approval;

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

Show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for;

Stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of;