Usually means: Appeal or petition for something.
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  1. request: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. request: Merriam-Webster
  3. request: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. request: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. request: Collins English Dictionary
  6. request: Vocabulary.com
  7. Request, request: Wordnik
  8. request: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. request: Wiktionary
  10. request: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. request: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. request: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Request, request: Dictionary.com
  14. request (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. request: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Request (Juju album), Request (broadcasting), Request: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Request: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. request: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. request: Rhymezone
  20. request: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. request: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. request: FreeDictionary.org
  23. request: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. request: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. request: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. request: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. request: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. request: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. REQUEST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. request: Idioms

(Note: See requested as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
verb:  (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.
noun:  Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
noun:  A formal message requesting something.
noun:  Condition of being sought after.
noun:  (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.

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