requisition
re kwuh zi shuhn
- n 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
- n an official form on which a request in made
first you have to fill out the requisition - n seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
- v make a formal request for official services
- v demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service
- Basis of Hoover's proposal, by which England would be asked to sheathe her chief weapon, the blockade, would be a guarantee from Germany not to requisition any of the supplies.
- His requisition for a bell for Adano struck headquarters as another sign of his failing mind.
- Shortly thereafter, Jersey's Governor Arthur Harry Moore, with an extradition requisition laid before him, announced: "I have heard enough.