petition
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈtɪ.ʃən/
petition (plural petitions)
- A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
- A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
- (legal) A formal written request for judicial action.
- A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
- Bible, 1. Macc. vii. 37
- A house of prayer and petition for thy people.
- Bible, 1. Macc. vii. 37
- French: pétition
- German: Petition, Eingabe
- Italian: petizione
- Portuguese: petição
- Russian: пети́ция
- Spanish: petición
- German: Unterschriftensammlung
- Portuguese: abaixo-assinado
- Russian: пети́ция
petition (petitions, present participle petitioning; past and past participle petitioned)
- (transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.
- The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
- French: pétitionner
- Russian: хода́тайствовать
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