requester

noun

re·​quest·​er ri-ˈkwe-stər 

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

Plus, requesters would have to identify by name everyone in the photos or videos, possibly including bystanders. —David Wickert, AJC.com, 25 Mar. 2026

Members of some of the victims’ families sued and secured a court order that such photos required heavier redactions when disclosed to requesters. —Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 24 Mar. 2026

In Lexington, a school employee was caught discussing whether production costs could be inflated in hopes that a requester would give up. —Paul Diego Craney, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026

Michigan sent 40 pages of documents that included the requester’s name and date, but contained nothing about the actual request. —Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026

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