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单词 to be in requisition
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to be in requisition
b. to be in requisition: to be in use. Frequently with modifying adjective, as constant, frequent, etc.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > be in use or called into use [verb (intransitive)]
to be in requisition1795
1795 tr. Report in Coll. State Papers War against France II. 243 The raw articles of every description, not necessary for the army or navy, which may be found in the magazines of the Republic, or which are in requisition on its account, shall immediately be put up to public sale.
1799 W. G. Browne Trav. Afr. xxi. 341 No part of the materia medica is so much in requisition as those which stimulate to animal pleasure.
1802 Port Folio 30 Oct. 341/3 The whole host of taylors, mantua-makers, and milliners, have been for a month in requisition.
1817 W. Beloe Sexagenarian I. 333 The guillotine was (to use their abominable jargon) in constant requisition.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 20 That duty done, once more the straw hat and Sultan were in requisition.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iii. v. 188 He and his book were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker ix. 142 The new coat was unbuttoned and all flying open: the new silk handkerchief in busy requisition.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 268/1 The balloon corps was in constant requisition during the campaign.
1954 PMLA 69 358 And both democratic respectability and Truth, in these anti-intellectualist days, appear most desperately in requisition.
2001 O. Prakash Encycl. Hist. Indian Freedom Movement i. 23 Cornwallis returned to England, only to find that his services were again in requisition by the Government.
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