request

About 30.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To ask for (something).

   The corporal requested reinforcements.

2. verb To ask (somebody) to do something.

   She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.

3. noun Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
4. noun A formal message requesting something.
5. noun Condition of being sought after.
6. noun A message sent over a network to a server.

   The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.

7. noun That which is asked for or requested.

Similar words

asking petition bespeak quest call for ask inquire enquire enquiry query

Often followed by

for of to that the was and a is

Word family

requested requesting requests