How to Use requisition in a Sentence
requisition
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Open requisitions have been put on hold, leaving managers to pick up the slack.
—Roberta Matuson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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When work is done, your laptop sits on a matte black perch, high above the requisition forms and time cards.
—Carley Knobloch, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
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Congress could pass requisitions, which were basically requests for money from the states.
—Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Time, 6 Apr. 2020
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This means recruiters must often sort through hundreds, or even thousands, of job applications to fill a single requisition.
—Dr. Kyle Elliott, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Workforce Pell answers the employer’s empty requisition and the public’s doubt at the same time.
—Caroline Casagrande, Fortune, 6 July 2026
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Not a single state complies with the requisitions, several pass over them in silence, and some positively reject them.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Aug. 2014
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An airman quoted in the UPI article says that a toilet seat cover requisition can take up to a year to fill.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2019
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Headcount changes start with backfills, requisitions and contractor budgets.
—Gleb Tsipursky, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2026
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Replacing a broken office printer needs a requisition form approved by a manager.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
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Excessive grain requisitions by the government drove many peasants to starvation.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2013
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If fewer people resign and land new jobs, there will be less opportunities available, and with fewer job requisitions, there’s less movement overall.
—Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
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Kelly was booked into the Crawford County jail on June 25 on a felony charge of arrest prior to requisition.
—Mike Crowley The Meadville Tribune, al, 7 July 2023
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For example, rather than creating a job requisition from scratch, a hiring manager could ask a virtual agent to create one based on a similar position.
—Fran Maxwell, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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So, when an office employee is found to have take a stapler home, a new process for getting office supplies with requisition forms and managerial approvals is implemented.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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The combination of lies, failed experiments, absence of labor and violent requisition practices led to famine.
—Helen Raleigh, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
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Site office managers will eventually be able to enter requisitions through the online portal and the approvals process will lead back to Evans’ office for purchasing.
—Matt Sanderson, La Cañada Valley Sun, 19 Apr. 2017
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Later, when the French requisition the entire rice harvest in order to feed troops, the women of the village develop a scheme of resistance and bear the brunt of the colonists’ retribution.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
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The company also reported that job applications across the board grew four times faster than requisitions, leaving application volume far ahead of hiring demand.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2024
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Department are required to follow procurement guidelines, and his staff review the requisition and approve if the department has followed those rules, Bilby added.
—Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
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Some hospital workers also went on strike, though public hospitals requisition workers during strikes to ensure essential medical care.
—Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
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If more materials are needed, submit a requisition to your local provider, which has that secret discretionary account from all those monthly surcharges for those who add extra regional sports channels.
—Orange County Register, 7 Jan. 2017
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During that same period, job applications jumped 31% — more than four times the number of requisitions, when a manager creates a new position or looks to fill an open role at a company.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2024
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For hundreds of years, the royal prerogative has allowed Britain’s leaders to mint coinage, requisition ships, send troops into battle or authorize the mining of precious metals.
—Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
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The process of moving supplies to England was gauged by the general timetable, radioed requisitions from supply officers in England, and the availability of ships.
—Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
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The act initially gave the President short-term use of wide-ranging powers from the requisition of property, material and facilities to the ability to place ceilings on wages and prices.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 Mar. 2020
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The formal requisition process began with a November request for qualifications, proceeded with a request for proposals and resulted in two bids.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
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Interview training is a must for companies to equip hiring managers with the ability to look beyond just the skills needed for an open requisition to also ensure the candidate aligns with the organization’s values.
—Sherika Epko, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
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For mothers with all their hats -- requisition and inventory officer, accountant, staff sergeant, teacher, coach, shrink, healer, chaplain, chef, dishwasher, shaman, farmer, artist, employee and boss.
—John Archibald | [email protected], al, 10 May 2020
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The troupe of players Hamlet requisitions is accompanied by an onstage accordionist, for a sound appropriately rustic yet prickly.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 30 June 2017
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She was hired as the school's bookkeeper in 2018 responsible for internal accounts, the budget, accounts payable, petty cash, purchase orders and requisitions.
—Scott Butler, Florida Times-Union, 29 Jan. 2026
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