Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 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; 
- Example: "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities"[syn: warrant, stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stock-purchase warrant
    n 1: 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; "as a sweetener they offered
         warrants along with the fixed-income securities" [syn:
         warrant, stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant]