Requisitions

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A formal request to acquire goods or services typically issued by an organization for its operational requirements
2. The act of formally seeking the provision of materials or services, often through established protocols within institutions
3. An official appeal made to obtain materials or services needed by an organization

Etymology: "Requisitions" is simply the plural of "requisition", so its history is that of the singular. The noun came into English from Old French "requisicion", which itself descends from Medieval Latin "requisitio", a noun of demand or seeking formed from the verb "requirere", "to seek again" or "to ask for". The Latin verb had a Latin root "quaerere", "to seek", and the same family of meaning runs through the English "require" and "request". The word's internal structure is clearer than its ancestry. It was built on the Latin stem "requisit-", the base of the past participle "requisitus" ("sought out, required"), with the suffix "-ion" marking the act or result of doing something. The sense of a formal demand for goods or services, which is how the word is used today, developed from the general idea of an authoritative call for something, and the military and governmental application of that call is what the plural form most often describes.

Synonyms: requests, demands, orders, applications, requirements