asking
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Definitions ofasking
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
Example: "I asked her age."
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
Example: "to ask a question"
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
Example: "I'm going to ask this lady for directions."
- To request or petition; usually with for.
Example: "to ask for a second helping at dinner"
- To request permission to do something.
Example: "Did you ask to use the car?"
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
Example: "What price are you asking for the house?"
- To invite.
Example: "Don't ask them to the wedding."
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
Example: "His asking was greeted with silence."
- A request, or petition.
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