transcription, транскрипция: [ pətɪʃ(ə)n ]
( petitions, petitioning, petitioned)
1.
A petition is a document signed by a lot of people which asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing.
We recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4,500 people.
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2.
A petition is a formal request made to a court of law for some legal action to be taken. ( LEGAL )
His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped...
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3.
If you petition someone in authority, you make a formal request to them. ( FORMAL or LEGAL )
...couples petitioning for divorce...
All the attempts to petition the Congress had failed...
She’s petitioning to regain custody of the child.
VERB : V for n , V n , V to-inf , also V for n to-inf , V n for n