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asking
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun asking has 1 sense
- asking(n = noun.communication) request - the verbal act of requesting; Array is a kind of speech act
has particulars: notice, notification, indirect request, wish, invitation, appeal, entreaty, prayer, orison, petition, prayer, call, billing, charge, trick or treat, inquiring, questioning, order, callback, recall
CIDE DICTIONARY
asking, n.
- The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- The publishing of banns. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
asking
Request
N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.
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