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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181. After all the signatures were collected for the petition it would be a pity to lose this service as well.
182. That the respondent has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.
183. Almost 200,000 Czechs signed a petition protesting at Mr Hodac's appointment, and each night thousands gather outside the studios.
184. Their written petition gives some indication as to how much the Jesuits had mastered the delicate art of memorializing the emperor.
185. In the divorce petition he claimed, interalia, interim and permanent joint custody of, and access to, the child.
186. The first petition drive ended Monday when the party turned in more than 160, 000 signatures.
187. Everyone has signed the petition: lawyers and business men, musicians and housewives, teachers and workmen.
188. The Leeders are now drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Bishop of Chelmsford next month.
189. More than 400 villagers have signed a petition against their application feeling their venture would aggravate the problem.
190. Six days to circulate a petition around the scattered islands.
191. The bank then served a bankruptcy petition on A for the other half.
192. An area seeking detachment must present a petition signed by 25 percent of its registered voters.
193. That same signature would remain valid on the petition of an independent candidate, she said.
194. The bishops were sent to the Tower on the grounds that their petition was seditious libel.
195. On receiving the petition demanding Outram's resignation they stuck to the principle of laissez-faire.
196. A petition for street-lighting in Great Stainton was handed into the committee.
197. They began to petition the queen.
198. Thousands of citizens subscribed the petition.
199. He subscribed his name to a petition.
200. The court rejected their petition.
201. a petition against experiments on animals.
202. She has filed a petition for divorce.
203. A thousand people signed the petition.
204. I can petition for Junie's custody.
205. The number of signers of the petition for a new school snowballed.
206. Their battle-cry will be: "Sign this petition before they sign away your country.".
207. Was she also the reason you signed a petition for Loyalist Spain?
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.