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requesting

requesting is the present participle and gerund of request.

Meaning of request

Verb

request (third-person singular simple present requests, present participle requesting, simple past and past participle requested)

  1. To ask for (something).
    • The corporal requested reinforcements.
  2. (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.
    • She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.
    Synonyms:
    ask, bespeak, call for

See all 7 meanings of request

Phrases with requesting

Questions about requesting

What is requesting the present participle and gerund of?
Requesting is the present participle and gerund of request.

Words near requesting in the dictionary

  1. requester
  2. requesters
  3. requestes
  4. requestest
  5. requesteth
  6. requesting
  7. requestingly
  8. requestion
  9. requestioned
  10. requestioning
  11. requestions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: requesting (page history and authors); request (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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