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say it: reh-kwuh-ZISH-uhn
requisition is a noun and verb meaning "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". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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
an official form on which a request in made
“first you have to fill out the requisition”
seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
make a formal request for official services
demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for requisition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.