REQUISITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does requisition mean? 

• REQUISITION (noun)
  The noun REQUISITION has 3 senses:

1. the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use

2. an official form on which a request in made

3. seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized

  Familiarity information: REQUISITION used as a noun is uncommon.

• REQUISITION (verb)
  The verb REQUISITION has 2 senses:

1. make a formal request for official services

2. demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service

  Familiarity information: REQUISITION used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REQUISITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("requisition" is a kind of...):

demand (an urgent or peremptory request)

Derivation:

require (make someone do something)

requisition (demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official form on which a request in made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

requisition; requisition form

Context example:

first you have to fill out the requisition

Hypernyms ("requisition" is a kind of...):

form (a printed document with spaces in which to write)

Derivation:

requisition (make a formal request for official services)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

requisition; sequestration

Hypernyms ("requisition" is a kind of...):

appropriation (a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner)

• REQUISITION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they requisition    ... he / she / it requisitions   
Past simple: requisitioned   
Past participle: requisitioned   
-ing form: requisitioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a formal request for official services

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "requisition" is one way to...):

command; require (make someone do something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

requisition (an official form on which a request in made)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "requisition" is one way to...):

arrogate; claim; lay claim (demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

derequisition (release from government control)

Derivation:

requisition (the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use)

 Context examples 

The Count, if you remember, took some other precautions; he made some requisitions on others that Mrs. Harker could not quite hear or understand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily requisition as a reception-room for callers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How Anne's more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little consequence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was by no means his daughter's wish that the intellects of Highbury in general should be put under requisition.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her entreaty had no effect on Tom: he only said again what he had said before; and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious, and which altogether was quite overpowering to Fanny; and before she could breathe after it, Mrs. Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible—“What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort—so kind as they are to you!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I found that my services were constantly called into requisition for the falsification of business, and the mystification of an individual whom I will designate as Mr. W. That Mr. W. was imposed upon, kept in ignorance, and deluded, in every possible way; yet, that all this while, the ruffian—HEEP—was professing unbounded gratitude to, and unbounded friendship for, that much-abused gentleman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He told me that he and his companions had been chosen by the other sailors to come in deputation to me to make me a requisition which, in justice, I could not refuse.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)