petition

IPA: pʌtˈɪʃʌn

A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
(law) A formal written request for judicial action.
A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.

Examples of "petition" in Sentences

If any of you are interested in signing it, the petition is here.
This petition is about Mike Griffin the man, about the administrator ...
Philby@214, yes I do, a petition is a wall that seperates cubicles in an office building.
Anyway the petition is a perfect marketing ploy to attract more viewers to his new movie.
Accompanying the petition is a series of portraits of Icelanders holding up their own protestations of innocence.
The biggest weaknesses of their argument are (1) the lack of a record of harassment in connection with referendum 71 and (2) the question whether signing a petition is an anonymous act.
Signing the petition is a statement that you oppose the Burger King approach to education ( "have it your way"), the diminution of the Liberal Arts, the continued fetishization of assessment as panacea for all of academia's ills, and, most importantly, phrases like "mass customization."
My friend, Dr. Gosset -- who will not (I trust) petition for excommunicating me from the orthodox church to which I have the honour of belonging, if I number him in the upper class of bibliomaniacs -- was unable to attend the sale of the Pinelli collection, from severe illness: but he _did petition_ for a sight of one of these volumes of old