indirect request

1. 1.

   an expression of some desire or inclination

   “I could tell that it was his wish that the guests leave”

   “his crying was an indirect request for attention”

   Synonymswish

   Broaderrequest

Questions about indirect request

What does indirect request mean?

indirect request means "an expression of some desire or inclination".

What is another word for indirect request?

Close synonyms include wish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indirect request a common word?

indirect request is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.