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

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The timeline could be further extended if the agency determined the request was made for the requester’s explicit financial gain. Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025 Require the law enforcement agency to communicate with the requester through the review and reinvestigation process. Kate Wolffe, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2025 By 2018, Google had received almost 2.4 million URL removal requests from 400,000 requesters; 43% of requests were approved. Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 27 Feb. 2025 The requester sought for the book to be moved from the children’s section to an adult section. Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for requester

Word History

First Known Use

1564, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of requester was in 1564

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“Requester.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/requester. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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