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REQUESTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does requester mean?
• REQUESTER (noun)
The noun REQUESTER has 1 sense:
1. one praying humbly for something
Familiarity information: REQUESTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One praying humbly for something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant
Context example:
a suppliant for her favors
Hypernyms ("requester" is a kind of...):
applicant; applier (a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "requester"):
besieger (an energetic petitioner)
postulant (one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order)
canvasser; solicitor (a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes)
Context examples
A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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