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Requisition   /rˌɛkwəzˈɪʃən/   Listen
Requisition

noun
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.  Synonym: requisition form.
3.
Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized.  Synonym: sequestration.
verb
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.  Antonym: derequisition.



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"Requisition" Quotes from Famous Books



... her ambition, or comprehend her resources. From the moment of his meeting with her she became a woman. She was already a politician as she was a poet. Intrigue is natural to the genius of the sex, and the faculty is enlivened by the possession of a warm imagination. La Pola put all her faculties in requisition. Her soul was now addressed to the achievement of some plan of co-operation with the republican chief, and she succeeded where wiser persons must have failed in compassing the desirable facilities. Living in Bogota—the ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various
... confusion in the village that night, and sad the partings between friends and kinsfolk. All the beasts of burden were put in requisition; only a hundred of the choicest steeds reserved for the brave band who were to accompany their beloved ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... like the doctor, his services are in requisition mainly in times of trouble. The Black Country which lies north of Birmingham is full of disaster, and the special correspondent has a big field there. Quite early in my career I was sent out to Pelsall Hall, near Walsall, where a mine had been flooded and ...
— The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography • David Christie Murray
... the rescue," said the prince. "Had you answered the requisition of my steward, you would have spared me the painful necessity of wounding a dozen of ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
... that night, building it up at the head with my dunnage bag, and at the foot with boughs. My hot-water bottle was also called into requisition, for it was cold. They were both better than I had hoped, and I slept as comfortably as if in the most ...
— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)


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