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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31. We're getting up a petition against the proposed building plans.
32. Public employees, teachers and liberals are circulating a petition for his recall.
33. The group intended to present this petition to the parliament.
34. Everyone signed the petition to the County Council for a new school in our village.
35. In 1999 the town had voted down a petition to close the school.
36. The district court has opposed the petition by the local electricity company.
37. The group intends to petition Parliament for reform of the law.
38. His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped.
39. She wanted to hand the petition to the prime minister personally.
40. The villagers all signed a petition asking for a hospital to be built.
41. The petition had been followed by a receiving order.
42. Their repeated petition for redress got nowhere.
43. The divorce petition was later dropped.
44. Secondly, the proceedings were by way of bankruptcy petition.
45. He filed the petition himself at Middlesbrough County Court.
46. They began first with a petition drive.
47. They also plan to launch a petition.
48. The Supreme Court action was taken in response to a petition against the government's decision submitted by the Bar Association.
49. Everyone who signs the petition becomes eligible to participate in the convention tentatively set for Labor Day weekend.
50. A federal bankruptcy court is scheduled to review the petition late this month.
51. The larger unincorporated industrial towns could petition for incorporation under this Act and many did so over the following years.
52. They demanded the release of de la Mare and submitted a petition protesting against the annulment of statutes except by parliament.
53. These could include anything from acupuncture, herbal remedies and nutritional supplements to, yes, a petition to a higher power.
54. Pensions Mr. Morley I wish to present a second petition, signed by many thousands of Scunthorpe district residents.
55. The result is the resurrection of the Oakhanger Preservation Society, and a protest petition already signed by 100 people.
56. Castle Square tenants association had submitted a petition calling on the council to withdraw the offer.
56. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
57. A petition for leave to appeal is now pending before the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. 2.
58. Friday I organised a petition to the local council for a safe play area.
59. A petition signed by 2,500 people calling for better nursery provision was presented to County Hall in Durham.
60. A residents' petition called for the venture to be shelved until a more suitable access route was devised.
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.