Usually means: Request something from someone else.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. ask for: Merriam-Webster
  2. ask for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ask for: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ask for: Vocabulary.com
  5. ask for: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ask for: Wiktionary
  7. ask for: Dictionary.com
  8. ask for: Rhymezone
  9. ask for: FreeDictionary.org
  10. ask for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. ask for: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. ask for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  13. ask for: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ask for: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ask for: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ask for)

▸ verb:  To request.
▸ verb:  To increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite.

Similar:
invite, request, require, petition, call for, desire, solicitate, solicit, crave, call on, more...

Opposite:
refuse, decline, deny, reject, withhold

Phrases:
ask for it, ask for trouble, ask for the moon, Ask for Angela, I Could Not Ask for More, more...

Adjectives:
tender, fifth, dun, invitational, impetrate, exact, asking, requisitory, action, seeking, wanted

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Similar:
invite, request, require, petition, call for, desire, solicitate, solicit, crave, call on, more...

Opposite:
refuse, decline, deny, reject, withhold

Phrases:
ask for it, ask for trouble, ask for the moon, Ask for Angela, I Could Not Ask for More, ask for more, ask for help, to ask for, ask for money, ask for clarification, ask for something, ask for forgiveness, more...

Adjectives:
tender, fifth, dun, invitational, impetrate, exact, asking, requisitory, action, seeking, wanted



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