noun
petition
a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
In a sentence
Six example sentences with petition, each labelled with its topic.
Organizers delivered a petition with forty thousand signatures to the county office an hour before the deadline.
Politics
The clemency petition ran to sixty pages and included letters from three former wardens who knew the case.
Law
Mill workers walked to the capital carrying a petition their employers had warned them not to sign.
History
The petition to protect the wetland gathered twelve thousand signatures, mostly from people who had never visited it.
Environment
Fans filed a petition asking the league to keep the team in the city after the owner threatened to move it.
Basketball
Two hundred researchers signed a petition urging the ministry not to close the country's only deep sea observatory.
Science
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- United States Courts glossaryAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
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