"requestman" meaning in All languages combined

See requestman on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: requestmen [plural]
Etymology: From request + -man. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|request|man}} request + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|requestmen}} requestman (plural requestmen)
  1. (naval) One who submits a formal request.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "request",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "request + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From request + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "requestmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "requestmen"
      },
      "expansion": "requestman (plural requestmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -man",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Mian Zahir Shah, Bubbles of Water, Or, Anecdotes of the Pakistan Navy, page 224:",
          "text": "After the ME had made a very convincing case for going on leave Sohail asked his divisional Chief ERA, who was standing behind and to the right of the requestman, “Well, Chief. What do you say?”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Brian Lavery, Churchill's Navy: The Ships, People and Organisation, 1939-1945:",
          "text": "If this was considered inadequate, the case went before the captain, who heard 'requestmen and defaulters' at a fixed time. Requestmen might ask for promotion, for special leave or some other privilege.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who submits a formal request."
      ],
      "id": "en-requestman-en-noun-HvTe5XK2",
      "links": [
        [
          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
        [
          "request",
          "request"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(naval) One who submits a formal request."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "naval",
        "navy",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "requestman"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "request",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "request + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From request + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "requestmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "requestmen"
      },
      "expansion": "requestman (plural requestmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms suffixed with -man",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Mian Zahir Shah, Bubbles of Water, Or, Anecdotes of the Pakistan Navy, page 224:",
          "text": "After the ME had made a very convincing case for going on leave Sohail asked his divisional Chief ERA, who was standing behind and to the right of the requestman, “Well, Chief. What do you say?”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Brian Lavery, Churchill's Navy: The Ships, People and Organisation, 1939-1945:",
          "text": "If this was considered inadequate, the case went before the captain, who heard 'requestmen and defaulters' at a fixed time. Requestmen might ask for promotion, for special leave or some other privilege.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who submits a formal request."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
        [
          "request",
          "request"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(naval) One who submits a formal request."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "naval",
        "navy",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "requestman"
}

Download raw JSONL data for requestman meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.