Synonym: appeal, demand, plea, request, requisition. Similar words: competition, competitive, practitioner, appetite, competitor, constitutional convention, factitious, fictitious. Meaning: [pɪ'tɪʃn] 
n. 1. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority 2. reverent petition to a deity. v. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.
n. 1. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority 2. reverent petition to a deity. v. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing. 
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1. We're collecting signatures for a petition.
2. They addressed a petition to the legislature.
3. They collected 10 000 signatures for their petition.
4. The petition will be heard tomorrow.
5. Councillors were presented with a petition calling for more money to be spent on policing the area.
6. We recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4,500 people.
7. The workers are getting up a petition for tighter safety standards.
8. I signed a petition against the proposed closure of the local hospital today.
9. They wanted me to sign a petition against experiments on animals.
10. The townspeople sent a petition to the government asking for electric light for the town.
11. Democrats say the petition will eviscerate state government.
12. All the attempts to petition the Congress had failed.
13. She is threatening to file a petition for divorce.
14. We've been out collecting signatures for our petition.
15. Local government supports the petition for a new hospital.
16. They collected over 1,[Sentencedict.com]000 signatures for the petition.
17. They turned in a petition with 80 000 signatures.
18. They presented a petition to the governor.
19. Her petition for divorce was granted.
20. The petition supports the scheme to rebuild the road.
21. The petition opposes the closures.
22. Over a hundred people have signed the petition.
23. The local court received her petition for divorce.
24. She's filing a petition for divorce.
25. Jill volunteered to organize a petition.
26. The school collected 4000 signatures for the petition.
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27. Her husband has already filed a petition for divorce.
28. I signed a petition in support of the campaign to end the marketing of baby milk in developing countries.
29. Local residents have drawn up a petition to protest the hospital closure.
30. They signed a petition in support of the pay claim.
More similar words: competition, competitive, practitioner, appetite, competitor, constitutional convention, factitious, fictitious, superstitious, adventitious, surreptitious, surreptitiously, completion, institution, restitution, accretion, edition, tuition, constitution, discretion, volition, ambition, audition, fruition, sedition, addition, position, institutional, rendition, coalition.