requisition

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun 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
noun an official form on which a request in made
noun seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized

From Middle English requisicion, from Old French requisicion, from Medieval Latin requisitio. By surface analysis, requisit(e) + -ion.

The Bible, too, was brought into requisition. — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
HERE, THEREFORE, THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY IS BROUGHT INTO REQUISITION. — On War, Carl von Clausewitz
Stonewall Jackson had made requisition of all wagons about Winchester. — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston

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