requester

noun

re·​quest·​er ri-ˈkwe-stər 

plural requesters

: one who makes a request : one who asks something of another

But in Washington state, filing a public records request can put the requester at legal risk of being named in a lawsuit should someone else not want the records to be made public.

—North Coast Journal

"You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request without waiting for arguments to reason one into it."

—Jane Austen

Examples of requester in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Brewerton-Palmer said SB 482 could be interpreted as requiring requesters to identify all people in such a video, which could allow police to deny its release. —David Wickert, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026

Michigan sent 40 pages of documents that included the requester’s name and date, but contained nothing about the actual request. —Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026

To challenge an insurer’s assertion in New York or many other states that material is a trade secret, requesters must make a public records filing for the material through their department of insurance. —Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026

Inspectors general have been told to follow the same MPIA procedures as outside requesters, despite possessing statutory subpoena authority, according to inspectors general. —Adam Thompson, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1564, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for requester

• ancestor
• arrester
• digester
• investor
• protester
• semester
• sequester
• silvester
• trimester
• ester
• esther
• fester