requisition

[ UK /ɹˌɛkwɪsˈɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɛkwəˈzɪʃən/ ]

VERB

demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service
make a formal request for official services

NOUN

seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use
an official form on which a request in made
first you have to fill out the requisition

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How To Use requisition In A Sentence

The soldiers were requisitioning things left and right, not good for an occupying army.
He has agreed to requisition a certain number of farm carts. IN LOVE AND WAR
The whole of this season 's harvest had also been requisitioned, so that by the end of the year the people would be starving. Times, Sunday Times
All this exactness of requisition appeared to me to be going rather too far; and I exhibited my feeling on the subject, in the tone in which I replied, that I had stated every thing that was necessary for the satisfaction of a "man of sense, but that I had neither the faculty nor the inclination to indulge the captiousness of any man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
They tell me I have to send a work requisition and that they are going to mail me the form.
After the war the land area was not derequisitioned for a considerable time, but the aerodrome was abandoned by the Ministry.
The building was requisitioned as a military hospital for the duration of the war.
Secondly, the controversial decision to expand the land requisition by the scope.
I know the mode has been chicaned upon; but it was substantially obeyed, and much better obeyed than I fear the Parliamentary requisition of this session will be, though enforced by all your rigor and backed with all your power. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
Kindly submit us the product photos, together with this requisition form.