Other forms: requisitioned, requisitioning, requisitions
A requisition is a formal request for goods or services. Raise a requisition, a purchase requisition, sign the requisition.
In an organisation it is the paperwork that starts a purchase, and requisition numbers are how spending is tracked. In wartime, to requisition means for the state to take property compulsorily, usually with compensation promised — requisitioned houses, requisitioned vehicles. Note that the two senses share the idea of a demand backed by authority, which is why the same word covers a stationery order and a seized ship.
1nounrequisitionA formal request for goods or services.
“The nurse filled in a requisition for more bandages and gloves.”
2verbtakeTo take property compulsorily, of a state.
“During the war, the army requisitioned the hotel and turned it into a hospital.”
requisition is a formal demand.
Medieval Latin requisitio comes from requirere, to seek again — re- plus quaerere, to seek. Require, question and inquest come from the same seeking.
Medieval Latin
requisitio
Old French
requisicion
Middle English
requisicion
English, today
requisition
From Middle English requisicion, from Old French requisicion, from Medieval Latin requisitio. by surface analysis, requisit(e) + requisite + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA