Requisition

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A notarial demand of a debt.

II. Requisition ·noun The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.

III. Requisition ·noun That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.

IV. Requisition ·noun A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting.

V. Requisition ·vt To present a requisition to; to summon request; as, to requisition a person to be a candidate.

VI. Requisition ·vt To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops.

VII. Requisition ·noun A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.

VIII. Requisition ·noun A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, ·etc.

IX. Requisition ·noun A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.

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