to petition
61
3.5
- verb
- /pəˈtɪʃən/
- Formal
:
presentar una petición
- We organized a rally to petition the government for better healthcare access.
- petition the government
- petition the court
- petition the legislature
They started to essentially petition the, the policy makers.
- They started to essentially petition the, the policy makers.
- The protest is a means of of petitioning your government.
- So I remembered I just wanted to it's there was a famous convict who petitioned.
- And the way you do that in the Western Christian Church is to go to Rome and, you know, to petition and say, hey, we got something cool going on here.
- March, petition, vote, exercise your rights to be heard and have your opinion taken seriously.
- Especially since you might even have to petition all of your neighbors and get them to allow you to renovate or convert the property.
- Now the UNIA did eventually petition the League of Nations calling for Southwest African self rule, but their pleas fell on deaf ears.
- How do we petition to let us prove we're better than Frank Lampard?
- And now the administration is petitioning the FISA court to reanimate the bulk collection of metadata.
- And then then they petition and they petition and they plead.
Examples
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Her father is petitioning the Vatican for the girl to be made an official saint.
Fiction book (2000) -
The mother successfully petitioned the court for a reduction of the father's visitation rights.
Academic text (1992) -
We must petition the Lords.
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I will petition them, and you will have the same rights as any other defendant.
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A consumer, however, may petition the commissioner to review the continued use of any rate.
Academic text (2017) -
The law allowed parties to petition for legal status for the first time since 1957.
Academic text (1994) -
On another day he would say: "We have petitioned the Minister of Justice."
Fiction book (1990) -
He's going to trial this week, you know, so they had to petition the court for some sort of approval.
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The clubs had previously petitioned the NAACP for legal assistance but were rebuffed.
Academic text (2008) -
Fearing eventual displacement, they petitioned the government to reserve part of the island for them.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To request that someone do something or meet a requirement
417
1.0
Ask someone very seriously and urgently for something
285
3.9
Ask someone firmly and repeatedly to do something
12
8.1
Ask someone in a serious, emotional way to do something
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Petition comes from the Latin root petere, which means 'to seek' or 'to ask'. So to petition an authority is to formally 'seek' their decision or action, and you can see the same root in compete, which also carries the idea of 'seeking'.