request meaning
- Express the need or desire for; ask for
"She requested an extra bed in her room"
- bespeak, call for, quest - Ask (a person) to do something
"I requested that she type the entire manuscript" - Inquire for (information)
"I requested information from the secretary"
- A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- petition, postulation - The verbal act of requesting
- asking
Derived forms: requesting, requested, requests
Type of: ask, communicate, content, enquire [Brit, Cdn], inquire, message, pass, pass along, pass on, put across, speech act, subject matter, substance, wonder
Encyclopedia: Request
[Business]
noun, verb
■ noun [C]
the action of asking for sth formally and politely:
The bank is considering your request for a loan.
He agreed to stay for another six months at the request of the company / at the company's request.
Details of charges are available on request.
Workers at the plant have rejected a request to work five extra days a year.
They made repeated requests for further information.
❖ to make/put in/submit a request
◆ to agree to/comply with/grant a request
◆ to refuse/reject/turn down a request
■ verb [+ obj] (formal)
to ask for sth or ask sb to do sth in a polite or formal way:
They requested permission to build houses on the land.
She wrote to the manufacturer requesting a copy of the document.
You are requested to attend the next meeting.
We requested that the payment be made by the end of the month.
Auditors are required to provide any information reasonably requested by the bank.
[Law]
A notice of a desire on the part of the person making it, that the other party shall do something in relation to a contract.
In general when a debt exists payable immediately, the law does not impose on the creditor to make a request of payment. But when by the express terms of a contract, a request is necessary, it must be made. And in some cases where there is no express agreement a request is also requisite; as where A sells a horse to B to be paid for on delivery, a demand or request to deliver must be made before B can sustain an action or, it must be shown that A has incapacitated himself to deliver the horse because he has sold the horse to another person. On a general promise to marry, a request must be made before action, unless the proposed defendant has married another.
A request, like a notice, ought to be in writing and state distinctly what is required to be done without any ambiguous terms.
pleading. The statement in the plaintiff's declaration that a demand or request has been made by the plaintiff from the defendant, to do some act which he was bound to perform, and for which the action is brought.
A request is general or special. The former is called the licet saepius requisitus, or "although often requested so to do;" though generally inserted in the common breach to the money counts, it is of no avail in pleading, and the omission of it will not vitiate the declaration. Whenever it is essential to the cause of action, that the plaintiff should have requested the defendant to perform his contract, such request must be stated in the declaration and proved. The special request must state by whom, and the time and place when it was made, in order that the court may judge of its sufficiency.
Examples
More: Next- he lined out a few songs upon request.
- i request them to stop making such a noise ..
- these requests were easily accommodated.
- you shall have your request.
- mr. jackson was deaf to their requests.
