request
To ask for (something).
Example
“The corporal requested reinforcements.”
Other meanings
To ask (somebody) to do something.
“She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.”
Related words
- requestable
- requestee
- requester
- requestive
- requestor
- nonrequested
- unrequested
- requestingly
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "requīsīta".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “request” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.