| 单词 | petition |
| 释义 | petition (once / 256 pages) nv If you're angry about the new rule that you have to wear bright pink shoes to work every day, why not write up a petition, get all your co-workers to sign it, and submit it to your boss. Petition comes from the Anglo-Norman word peticiun, meaning "demand, request," and when you petition someone, you ask them to consider your request. If you write up a statement, say against the town's approval of a new carnival district, and collect signatures from 100 neighbors to turn in to the city government, that's a petition. If you pray to the carnival gods to reign down ruin on the carnival, that's also a petition — and no signatures needed. WORD FAMILYpetition: petitionary, petitioned, petitioner, petitioning, petitions+/petitioner: petitioners USAGE EXAMPLESA handful of other states’ petitions reached the U.S. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Hoang, a mother of three who worked at the salon for nearly a decade, organized 30 workers to sign a petition opposing the new classification. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) One online petition referred to the refugees as “the same people who hate us.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority Syn|Hypo|Hyper postulation, request application a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitationrequest for a sum of money demandan urgent or peremptory request job applicationan application for a job credit applicationan application for a line of credit loan applicationan application to borrow money patent applicationan application for sole rights to an invention whip-round(British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose challengea demand by a sentry for a password or identification ultimatuma final peremptory demand insistence, insistingcontinual and persistent demands call, claima demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" requisitionthe act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use calla demand for a show of hands in a card game call, margin calla demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement pay claim, wage claimthe wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives content, message, subject matter, substance what a communication that is about something is about 2n reverent petition to a deity Syn|Hypo|Hyper orison, prayer prayer wheel a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers; used especially by Buddhists in Tibet benediction, blessinga ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection collecta short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England comminationprayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday deprecationa prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster blessing, grace, thanksgivinga short prayer of thanks before a meal intercessiona prayer to God on behalf of another person invocation, supplicationa prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service requiescata prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person benisona spoken blessing rogationa solemn supplication ceremony prescribed by the church asking, request the verbal act of requesting 3v write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing Hypo|Hyper supplicate make a humble, earnest petition bespeak, call for, quest, request express the need or desire for; ask for |
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