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Request   /rɪkwˈɛst/  /rikwˈɛst/   Listen
Request

noun
1.
A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority.  Synonyms: petition, postulation.
2.
The verbal act of requesting.  Synonym: asking.
verb
(past & past part. requested; pres. part. requesting)
1.
Express the need or desire for; ask for.  Synonyms: bespeak, call for, quest.  "She called for room service"
2.
Ask (a person) to do something.  "I requested that she type the entire manuscript"
3.
Inquire for (information).



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indirect request
on request


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"Request" Quotes from Famous Books



... attention at the time the particular attention-stimulus knocked. You asked me to buy a ribbon of a certain shade and a certain width when I went to town. I was thinking of my dentist appointment. However, I heard your request, answered it graciously, took the money you offered, still wondering if the dentist would have to draw that tooth. And the chances are that I forgot your ribbon. I was giving you only a passive and ...
— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter
... well versed in finance, however, for when the owner of his cottage offered, at his request, to build a new pigsty if he would pay a rent of 5 per cent, annually on the cost—a very fair proposal—Jarge declined with scorn, being, I think, under the impression that the owner was demanding the complete sum of five pounds annually, and I found ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... at her elbow, concealed—at the express request of the interior decorator who had designed the room—in the interior of what looked to the casual eye like a stuffed owl. On a table near at hand, handsomely bound in morocco to resemble a complete works of Shakespeare, was the telephone book. Mrs. Pett hesitated ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... the above named Sarah Hayden Mosely as her last will and testament, and by us in her presence and at her request ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris


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