REQUEST


Meaning of REQUEST in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you ~ something, you ask for it politely or formally. (FORMAL)

Mr Dennis said he had ~ed access to a telephone...

She had ~ed that the door to her room be left open.

VERB: V n, V that

2.

If you ~ someone to do something, you politely or formally ask them to do it. (FORMAL)

Students are ~ed to park at the rear of the Department.

VERB: V n to-inf

3.

If you make a ~, you politely or formally ask someone to do something.

France had agreed to his ~ for political asylum...

N-COUNT: oft N for n, N that/to-inf

4.

A ~ is a song or piece of music which someone has asked a performer or disc jockey to play.

If you have any ~s, I’d be happy to play them for you.

N-COUNT

5.

If you do something at someone’s ~, you do it because they have asked you to.

The evacuation is being organised at the ~ of the United Nations Secretary General.

PHRASE

6.

If something is given or done on ~, it is given or done whenever you ask for it.

Leaflets giving details are available on ~...

PHRASE

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