Requested Request Rɪˈkwest Call Smoke Restaurant Told Information

• she requested permission to film at the white house.
• you can request a free copy of the leaflet.
• call us now if you’d like to request a record for someone (= ask for it to be played on the radio).
• you are requested not to smoke in the restaurant.

request

1. to ask for something or ask somebody to do something in a polite or formal way
• She requested permission to film at the White House.
• You can request a free copy of the leaflet.
• Call us now if you’d like to request a record for someone (= ask for it to be played on the radio).
• You are requested not to smoke in the restaurant.
• We were requested to assemble in the lobby.
• She requested that no one be told of her decision until the next meeting.
• She requested that no one should be told of her decision.
• ‘Please come with me,’ he requested.

Extra Examples

• Auditors will be required to provide any information reasonably requested by the bank.
• She had left him a message, simply requesting that he call her back.
• We have requested some information from the company.
• Aid agencies have urgently requested help.
• I’ve already requested some information from the company.
• She requested that no one else be told of her decision.
• We were requested to assemble in the hotel lobby.
• You are politely requested not to smoke in this restaurant.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they request
• he / she / it requests
• past simple requested
• past participle requested
• -ing form requesting

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French requeste (noun), based on Latin requirere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + quaerere ‘seek’.