requester

noun

plural requesters

: one who makes a request : one who asks something of another

But in Washington state, filing a public records request can put the requester at legal risk of being named in a lawsuit should someone else not want the records to be made public.

—North Coast Journal

"You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request without waiting for arguments to reason one into it."

—Jane Austen

Examples of requester in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Through reflection, Marvin realized that his default yes wasn’t always fair to himself, to his team or even to the requester. —Diana Lowe, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025

Then, that forwarder consults the PIT at each node to follow the reverse path back to the original requester. —Glenn Edens, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2017

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Witten ordered Chandler and Maricopa County not to release records to requesters until Kiser and The Republic's lawyers reviewed and discussed their contents. —Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 June 2025

This also gives the requester insights into specifically what is needed for the task to be completed. —Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1564, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for requester

• ancestor
• arrester
• digester
• investor
• protester
• semester
• sequester
• silvester
• trimester
• ester
• esther
• fester