transcription, транскрипция: [ əpi:l ]
( appeals, appealing, appealed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
The Prime Minister appealed to young people to use their vote...
He will appeal to the state for an extension of unemployment benefits...
The United Nations has appealed for help from the international community.
VERB : V to/for n to-inf , V to n for n , V for n
2.
An appeal is a serious and urgent request.
Romania’s government issued a last-minute appeal to him to call off his trip.
= petition
N-COUNT : oft N for/to n , N to-inf
3.
An appeal is an attempt to raise money for a charity or for a good cause.
...an appeal to save a library containing priceless manuscripts...
N-COUNT : oft N to-inf , N for n
4.
If you appeal to someone in authority against a decision, you formally ask them to change it. In British English, you appeal against something. In American English, you appeal something.
He said they would appeal against the decision...
We intend to appeal the verdict...
Maguire has appealed to the Supreme Court to stop her extradition.
VERB : V against n , V n , V to n to-inf
5.
An appeal is a formal request for a decision to be changed.
Heath’s appeal against the sentence was later successful...
The jury agreed with her, but she lost the case on appeal.
N-VAR
see also Court of Appeal
6.
If something appeals to you, you find it attractive or interesting.
On the other hand, the idea appealed to him...
VERB : V to n
7.
The appeal of something is a quality that it has which people find attractive or interesting.
Its new title was meant to give the party greater public appeal...
= attraction
N-UNCOUNT : with supp
see also sex appeal
8.
see also appealing