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

If the library doesn’t move the material within 60 days, the requester can then sue the library and claim damages. —Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 June 2024

The state routinely slow-walks requests for public records for months, even years, avoiding compliance until the request has lost its timeliness or the requester moves on or retires. —Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024

The company may extend the deletion process an additional 45 business days if the volume or complexity of consumer requests justifies an extension, however, the platform must notify the requester of the extension and the reason for the delay. —Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024

Additionally, government agencies that deny access to records, but are then successfully sued and forced to turn them over, will no longer have to pay the requesters’ legal fees. —Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1564, in the meaning defined above