requester

noun

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

If a platform is unable to determine whether the request was made by a qualified user, the company must notify the requester that additional information is required to authenticate their request. —Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024

Records relating to the investigation will be released to requesters once the investigation has concluded, Ashby has said. —Chase Rogers, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Mar. 2024

The most frequent of the three requesters, Aamot, whose online bio describes him as a former psychological operations planner with the Army’s Special Operations Command, submitted some FOIAs on behalf of the Heritage Foundation and others for the Daily Signal. —Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2024

If the library doesn’t move the material within 60 days, the requester can then sue the library and claim damages. —Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1564, in the meaning defined above