requisition for

requisition for (something)

1. noun A formal order, request, or demand for something. Submit a requisition of funding to the accounting department. The government has made a requisition for the suspect extradition from Columbia to be tried in US courts.
2. verb To make a formal order, request, or demand to acquire something for the use or purpose of someone or something. A noun or pronoun is used between "requisition" and "for." I'll try to requisition some additional resources for you. We'll need to requisition more staff for the even next week.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

requisition something for someone or something

to present an order or formal request for something for someone or some purpose. I will have to requisition a desk for you. You can't work an eight-hour day at a table. We will requisition catering for the office party.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • requisition for (something)
  • requisition to (do something)
  • requisition from
  • requisition from (someone or something)
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • bummer
  • angle
  • angling
References in classic literature
Their principal employment in the study was to clear out East's table; removing the drawers and ornaments and tablecloth; for he lived in the bottom passage, and his table was in requisition for the singing.
ISLAMABAD -- The Senate secretariat on Monday agreed in principle to remove a technical objection to the opposition's requisition for moving a no-trust motion against Senate Chairman Mohammad Sadiq Sanjrani, informed sources told Dawn.
ISLAMABAD -- As the controversy over the removal of Senate chairman is not going to settle down, the opposition in the upper house on Monday responded to the objections raised by the Senate Secretariat to its requisition for a session to move a no-confidence motion against Sadiq Sanjrani.
The opposition had submitted a requisition for convening a session along with a no-confidence motion to the secretariat.
'This notice of convention has been signed by over 50 per cent of members of KHA who signed the petition for requisition for the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM),' the notice said.
BALAKOT -- Following the orders of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Abbottabad bench, the opposition councilor of Balakot Tehsil Council tabled requisition for meeting to bid no confidence motion against nazim and naib nazim.
Opposition parties Pakistan People Party (PPP), Awami National Party (ANP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim LeagueQuaid (PMLQ), JamaateIslami (JI), All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) and independent members of Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) had submitted the requisition for NA session on January 20.
For example, when a unit located outside the continental United States (OCONUS) requests an item that has a national stock number (NSN), that requisition will receive a DIC of AOL Every MILSTRIP requisition for an NSN part coming from an OCONUS unit has a DIC of A01.
Once LSLI's data system receives the requisition, the clock starts on processing the requisition for ultimate delivery to the customer.
Imagine a state receiving a requisition for several billion dollars.
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE -- Amid claims by the opposition that the government is employing controversial tactics to delay, even thwart, its attempt to remove Sadiq Sanjrani from the office of Senate chairman, the Senate secretariat on Saturday raised objections to the opposition's requisition for summoning a session of the house to take up the matter.
PESHAWAR -- The opposition parties in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly could not agree to submit a new requisition for the session after their earlier requisition had been returned by Speaker Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani.
Later on, the PML-N-led Opposition submitted its requisition for calling the National Assembly session in 2011.
The chief minister, keeping in view the requirement of the services of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh extended their requisition for a period of one year w.e.f July 20, 2015.
The requestors while submitting the requisition for the senate session, said that serious proceedings regarding conduct of the elections and judicial hearing of cases against ex general Pervez Musharraf were underway and they feared that after declaration of Farm House of Pervez Musharraf as Sub-Jail, he could be airlifted to any other country.