requested English
Verb
(head)
(request)
request English
Noun
( en noun)
Act of (l).
* Shakespeare
- I will marry her, sir, at your request .
A formal (l) requesting something.
of being sought after.
* Sir W. Temple
- Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
(obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
* Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
- He gave them their request .
Synonyms
* (act of requesting) asking, beseech, prayer, wish
* (formal message requesting something) petition, postulation
* (state of being sought after) demand
Derived terms
* discovery request
* request for admission
* request for production
Verb
( en verb)
to express the need or desire for
to ask somebody to do something
Synonyms
* (to express the need or desire for ): indicate, pray, wish
* (to ask somebody to do something ): ask, bespeak, call for
Related terms
* require
* requirement
* requisite
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compulsory English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Required; obligatory; mandatory.
* 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
- They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
* 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
- Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Finland spreads word on schools
, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
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Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
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Synonyms
* mandatory
Antonyms
* (required) optional
Noun
(compulsories)
Something that is compulsory or required.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times citation
, passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}
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