From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsearch warrantˈsearch ˌwarrant noun [countable] SCPLOOK FORa legal document that gives the police official permission to search a building
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search warrant• He's probably gone for a search warrant ... Jim Henderson in the Raven says he was watching people at the bar.• It declared that the village had a search warrant for her home and would return sometime in the next 30 days.• The evidence he had provided in his report had been deemed too conjectural for the issuing of a search warrant.• Investigators on Monday sought a search warrant to examine a summer home the Ramseys own in Charlevoix, Mich.• Even a policeman wouldn't dare poke about without a search warrant - and you're not a policeman.• Searches of private property for illegal aliens can be made without a search warrant. 