requestor

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English

Etymology

From request +‎ -or; compare requester.

Noun

requestor (plural requestors)

  1. One who, or that which, makes a request.
    Synonym: asker
    Antonyms: denier, granter, grantor, requestee, supplier
    • 1983 November, Paul Mockapetris, “Domain Names - Implementation and Specification”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 883:
      The CLASS field allows the requestor to identify the format of data which can be understood by the requestor.
    • 1996, Scott H. Clearwater, Market-based Control: A Paradigm for Distributed Resource Allocation:
      Consider for example a scenario in which there are ten memory requestors, each with a separate memory account. Eight of these requestors together use only 1/5 of the system memory but the other two requestors each require 2/3 of the system memory.
    • 1999 July, Paul Robichaux, Managing Microsoft Exchange Server: Hands-on Advice for Planning, Optimization & Growth, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 259:
      TURN is a useful command, but it's also a security risk, because the queued mail is sent back to the requestor over the same connection, so anyone can ask for your queued mail and get it!
    • 2007, James Ray Hays, Emily G. Sutter, Robert McPherson, Texas Law and the Practice of Psychology: A Sourcebook, page 200:
      Based on your representation that the requestor is not within the ambit of section 501.205(b) and our review of the submitted information, we conclude that the submitted information is excepted from public disclosure under section 552.101 []
    • 2015, Michael Gabay, The Clinical Practice of Drug Information, page 13:
      The importance of successfully obtaining the demographics of the requestor is twofold. First, one must be able to identify the appropriate mode of communication in order to effectively respond to the drug information question.

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