Requisition meaning

rĕk'wĭ-zĭsh'ən
A formal written request for something needed.
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Requisition is an official order claiming or demanding property or materials or demanding the performance of a duty.

An order demanding the purchase of 100 guns for military use is an example of a requisition.

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A necessity; a requirement.
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To demand, as for military needs.
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To requisition is to demand the use of something or to demand that someone do something, often by official order.

When you demand 100 trucks for military purpose, this is an example of a situation where you requisition 100 trucks.

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The state or condition of being needed or put into service.
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A formal request of one government to another demanding the return of a criminal or fugitive.
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To make demands of.
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A requiring, as by right or authority; formal demand.
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A formal written order, request, or application, as for equipment or tools.
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The fact or condition of being demanded for service or use.
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A requirement; indispensable condition.
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A demand by one government upon another for the surrender of a fugitive criminal.
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To demand or take, as by authority.

To requisition food for troops.

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To demand from; make demands on.

To requisition a town for food.

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To submit a written order or request for (equipment, etc.)
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A formal request for something.
  • A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
  • (law) A notarial demand for repayment of a debt.
  • (military) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc.
  • A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service.
    A requisition for clothing, troops, or money.
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That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.
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A call; an invitation; a summons.

A requisition for a public meeting.

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To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies or transport.
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Origin of requisition

Requisition Sentence Examples

  • Even the shoulder-blades are said to be put in requisition for cutting grass."

  • In the case of the ship of a neutral power, the passport is a requisition by the government of the neutral state to suffer the vessel tc pass freely with the crew, cargo, passengers, &c., without molestation by the belligerents.

  • Esparto leaves contain 56% by weight of fibre, or about ro% more than straw, and hence have come into requisition as a substitute for linen rags in the manufacture of paper.

  • John, and sought to conciliate the Portuguese by reducing the requisition demanded by Napoleon from 40,000,000 francs to 20,000,000.

  • Urgent messages were sent off to the Commissary von Goethe (the poet), at Weimar for permission to requisition food and firewood.

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