word | requisition |
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definition | A demand or request (such as for supplies) made with proper authority. |
eg_sentence | The teachers had grown impatient with having to submit a requisition for even routine classroom supplies. |
explanation | Requisition was originally a noun but is now probably more common as a verb. So we either can speak of sending our office's purchasing department a requisition for computers, or of requisitioning more computers from the department. The word has an official sound to it. However, one of Hollywood's bittersweet love stories begins when Omar Sharif, playing a World War II freedom fighter, says to Ingrid Bergman, who is the owner of a stately old yellow Rolls Royce, “I've come to requisition your car. |
IPA | ˌrɛkwəˈzɪʃən |
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