Word Confusion: Warrantee versus Warranty

Plural: warrantees

Plural for the noun: warranties

Third person present verb: warranties
Past tense or past participle: warrantied
Present participle: warrantying

• [In contract law] A promise that something in furtherance of the contract is guaranteed by one of the contractors, especially the seller’s promise that the thing being sold is as promised or represented
• [In an insurance contract] An engagement by the insured party that certain statements are true or that certain conditions shall be fulfilled, the breach of it invalidating the policy
• [In property law] A covenant by which the seller binds themselves and their heirs to secure to the buyer the estate conveyed in the deed
• [In contract law] A term or promise in a contract, breach of which entitles the innocent party to damages but not to treat the contract as discharged by breach
• [Archaic; usually with negative] Justification or grounds for an action or belief

An act or an instance of warranting

• Assurance
• Authorization
• Warrant

[Law; covenant of warranty] A covenant in a deed to land by which the party conveying assures the grantee that he or she will enjoy the premises free from interference by any person claiming under a superior title

• [In the law of insurance] A statement or promise, made by the party insured, and included as an essential part of the contract, falsity or nonfulfillment of which renders the policy void
• A judicial document, as a warrant or writ

Verb, transitive:
To provide a manufacturer’s or dealer’s warranty

“. . . warrants issued by courts must be tagged with pamphlets regarding legal services available to noticees and warrantees” (Warrants).

You will both be cited as the warrantees for the car.

A good thing Mary talked me into that warranty, as the engine blew up on our trip.

If a promissory warranty becomes true, the insurer may cancel coverage at such time as the warranty becomes untrue.

Nah, we got one of them warranty deeds that guarantees the land isn’t mortgaged and doesn’t have any liens on it.

Your company gave us a warranty that you’d fix the computer if it screwed up.

“As for me, I returned as I had come after (say) five minutes’ absence; my head full once more of Eva, and of impatient anxiety for the wild young squire’s final flight; and my heart still singing with the joy of which my beloved’s kindness seemed a sufficient warranty” (Hornung).

Verb, transitive:
The automaker warranties its new cars against exterior rust.

The company warranties that our thingamabob is exactly like the ones their factory produces.

Our refrigerator was under warranty when the freezer went out, so the repairs are warrantied.

“Weigh-Tronix provides a truck scale that they warranty to weigh trucks with a gross weight of 80,000 lbs each at a rate of 200 per day, 365 days a year for 25 years” (Can).