Synonyms of requesting

requesting

verb

present participle of request

1

as in ordering

to give a request or demand for

a notice requesting that I report for jury duty on Monday morning

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ordering
• asking (for)
• calling for
• requisitioning
• putting in (for)
• hiring
• soliciting
• licensing
• commissioning
• chartering

2

as in seeking

to make a request for

request extra ketchup for my fries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seeking
• desiring
• requiring
• speaking (for)
• demanding
• urging
• calling (for)
• soliciting
• pleading (for)
• asking (for)
• suing (for)
• claiming
• inviting
• applying (for)
• invoking
• wishing (for)
• begging (for)
• questing
• clamoring (for)
• importuning
• pressing (for)
• requisitioning
• insisting (on)
• enjoining
• bespeaking
• petitioning (for)
• exacting

3

as in asking

to make a request of

a letter from the First Lady graciously requesting the chorus to perform at the White House

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asking
• inviting
• petitioning
• soliciting
• begging
• hitting (up)
• requiring
• praying
• invoking
• calling on
• imploring
• beseeching
• appealing (to)
• pleading (to)
• demanding
• conjuring
• entreating
• supplicating
• importuning
• enjoining
• pressing
• exacting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• requiring
• forcing
• compelling
• coercing
• constraining
• obliging

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of requesting

After neighbors complained last week about the diesel generators, Lisle Development Services Director Mike Smetana sent an email to CSquare requesting that the company stop using the temporary generators. — Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

Murphy did not return a phone call requesting comment on the lawsuit Wednesday. — Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2026

His state trial will not be televised, despite Mangione's legal team previously requesting the court proceedings be live-streamed, according to Vanity Fair reporting. — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026

That meeting is taking place after prosecutors and the defense team sent a letter to federal court Tuesday requesting Friday's conference. — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

Over the course of decades after the war, Zinn sent the Department of Defense letters requesting access to the records of his bombing runs. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

LeVota’s legal team filed a motion Tuesday requesting that his trial be delayed until April 2027, with the associated pretrial conference to also be pushed to a later date. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2026

The petition argues that even a single satellite could have consequences far beyond the client requesting the light. — Jean Lee, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2026

At the same time, surveys of its e-commerce customers — who account for about 35 percent of the business — and feedback from its direct-to-consumer shoppers echoed that sentiment, with many requesting denim from Z Supply. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2026