requisitionistn.
/ˌrɛkwᵻˈzɪʃn̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌrɛkwəˈzɪʃ(ə)nəst/ A person who makes a requisition; (now also) spec. a shareholder in a public company who requisitions directors to hold an extraordinary general meeting.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who makes a requisition
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1796 P. David Hist. Campaigns Gen. Pichegru xv. 105 A cloud of requisitionists and members of that department improperly called the commercial agency, preyed like vultures on the people.
1819 Edinb. Rev. 32 442 To make each sturdy requisitionist repent of having set his hand to the call.
1852 J. H. Newman Disc. Univ. Educ. 67 They call the demand tyrannical, and the requisitionists bigots or fanatics.
1865 Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 135 There were pledges sufficient..to satisfy the most rigorous requisitionists.
1908 Act 8 Edward VII c. 69 §66(2) The requisition [to the directors of a company, to hold an extraordinary general meeting] must be signed by the requisitionists.
1955 Winnepeg Free Press 18 Mar. 43/1 Monday's meeting was a special session called by the Cameron group. Major requisitionist was the Stuyvesant-North Co. Ltd.
1966 Archit. Hist. 9 195 Extraordinary General Meetings shall also be convened on such requisition, or in default may be convened by such requisitionists as provided by section 132 of the Act.
2004 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 35/2 The requisitionists are asking shareholders to gamble their interests and the company's future.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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