requisition

1. 1.

   make a formal request for official services

   Broadercommand
2. 2.

   demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service

   Antonymsderequisition

   Broaderclaim

Other forms of requisition

plural

requisitions·

past tense

requisitioned·

present participle

requisitioning·

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.

Questions about requisition

What does requisition mean?

requisition means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in requisition?

requisition has 4 syllables: req-ui-sit-ion. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛkwəˈzɪʃən/.

What is another word for requisition?

Close synonyms include requisition form, sequestration. 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.

What is the opposite of requisition?

The recorded antonyms are derequisition.

Is requisition a common word?

requisition is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with requisition?

21 words rhyme with requisition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.