direct request
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandrequest
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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request
noun
uk/rɪˈkwest/us/rɪˈkwest/
the act of politely or officially asking ...
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(Definition ofdirectandrequestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The request takes the form of an announcement rather than adirectrequest.
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Could he just define what he means by "directrequest"?
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It was first introduced, as he suggested, in another place at thedirectrequestof the co-operative movement.
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It was at thedirectrequestof the profession that certain members were allowed to opt out.
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They are products which can easily be sold over the doorstep, as it were, without adirectrequesthaving been made by a potential purchaser.
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The local authority may not and will not be able to make these orders without adirectrequestfrom the shopkeepers in a given area.
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If he did not think they would cut down advances on their own, why did he not make adirectrequesta long time ago?
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It was taken out, if not at theirdirectrequest, certainly with their full knowledge, agreement and consent.
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I imagine that goods sent out on approval in the normal way are sent in response to adirectrequest.
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Such powers can be used only at thedirectrequestof a local authority.
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He wanted to know, have we gone in after the receipt of adirectrequest?
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I have made nodirectrequestto the banks, and this device is an alternative to making a request to the banks.
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There would be adirectrequestby the board to the head teacher as long as it was understood that the head teacher was ultimately responsible to the education authority.
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Schemes to get young offenders to do good works at thedirectrequestof the community are regenerative at so many levels, but there are no brownie points there.
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He said that, as a result of adirectrequestby the unit trust management companies, unit trusts were assimilated with investment trusts for the purposes of taxation.
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I tabled the amendment at thedirectrequestof the head of one of my grammar schools, with the support of other heads of grammar schools.
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Metafont is most commonly invoked without adirectrequestfrom the user.
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Registry information should, according to etiquette, be provided only to guests upondirectrequest, and never included in the invitation.
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The units can be tasked to an incident either by proactive dispatch from ambulance control or by adirectrequestfrom an ambulance crew on the ground.
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He found that learners at all proficiency levels overused direct requests and underused nonconventionallyindirect requests (hints).
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