petition: Bedeutung und Definitionen

A solemn supplication or request to a superior authority; an entreaty.

A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority.

Law A formal written application requesting a court for a specific judicial action: a petition for appeal.

Law The judicial action asked for in any such request.

Something requested or entreated.

To address a petition to.

To ask for by petition; request formally.

To make a request, especially formally: petitioned for retrial.