Voucher vs. Warrant — What's the Difference?

A voucher is a bond of the redeemable transaction type which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be spent only for specific reasons or on specific goods. Examples include housing, travel, and food vouchers.

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

A small printed piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that may be exchanged for goods or services.

Justification or authority for an action, belief, or feeling

A piece of substantiating evidence; a proof.

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

A written record of expenditure, disbursement, or completed transaction.

Justify or necessitate (a course of action)

A written authorization or certificate, especially one exchangeable for cash or representing a credit against future expenditures.

Officially affirm or guarantee

To substantiate or authenticate with evidence.

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

To prepare a voucher for

A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.

To issue a voucher to

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

A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.

Justification for an action or a belief; grounds

A receipt.

Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof

One who or that which vouches.

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

(advertising) A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.

A warrant officer.

(historical) A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.

A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.

(transitive) To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.

To provide adequate grounds for; justify or require

(transitive) To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).

To guarantee (a product).

(transitive) To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.

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

One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.

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

A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.

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

The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.

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

A document attesting to a credit against certain defined expenditures; a recipt for prepayment; - often used in pre-arranged travel plans, to provide evidence of pre-payment of the cost of lodging, transportation, or meals.

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

Someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement

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 document that serves as evidence of some expenditure

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

A negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed

(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;