PETITIONED

Definition: PETITIONED

PETITIONED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Petition

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PETITIONED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Crosswords: PETITIONED

English words defined with "PETITIONED": abhorrer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "PETITIONED": Alexander the Corrector. ♦ Marsham ♦ Section 521 rental assistance. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Accounting for transsexualism and transhomosexuality : the gender identity careers of over 200 men and women who have petitioned for surgical reassignment of the sexual identity (reference) Oversight hearing on petitioned salmon stocks for endangered species listing : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, special hearing (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
US Declaration of Independence	1776	In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		To expand communal land holdings, for decades peasants have invaded private lands and petitioned for government recognition of the seizures. (references)
Children	Afghanistan	In 1999 in areas that had been newly captured by the Taliban, some communities successfully petitioned Taliban representatives to reopen the schools. (references)
Civil Liberties	Uganda	He petitioned the UHRC Tribunal against the Government for wrongful restriction of movement; the case was pending at year's end. (references)
	Pakistan	Christian Organizations for Social Action in Pakistan, a coalition of Christian NGO's who have pooled their resources to lobby for the restoration of joint electorates, petitioned President Musharraf in October 2000 requesting a dialog between the Government and minority leaders on the separate electorates controversy. (references)
Economic History	Bulgaria	The court of first instance must be petitioned for a writ of execution (based on the judgment). (references)
	Bangladesh	Bangladesh also has established successful export processing zones in Chittagong and Dhaka, and has given the private sector permission to build and operate competing EPZs-initial construction on a Korean EPZ started in 1999. In June 1999, the AFL-CIO petitioned the U.S. Government to deny Bangladesh access to U.S. markets under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), citing the country's failure to meet promises made in 1992 to allow freedom of association in EPZs. (references)
	El Salvador	Guatemalan troops sent to enforce the union were driven out of El Salvador in June 1822. El Salvador, fearing incorporation into Mexico, petitioned the U.S. Government for statehood. (references)
Human Rights	Uganda	In December he petitioned the Magistrate's Court and the UHRC and alleged unfair treatment in prison. (references)
	Zimbabwe	In July 2000, the LRF petitioned the Supreme Court to force the Government to release the findings; by year's end, the Court ruled that the President could be sued in court but did not rule on whether the Government was required to release its findings. (references)
	Armenia	During the year, parents of recruits killed or injured in the army or prosecuted by the Military Prosecutor's office staged several rallies in front of the presidential office and petitioned both the President and the Human Rights commission. (references)
Indigenous People	Venezuela	In 1996 a number of human rights organizations, acting on behalf of the Yanomami community of Haximu, petitioned the IACHR in connection with the 1993 massacre of 16 members of the community by Brazilian miners. (references)
Minorities	Japan	In February non-Japanese residents of Nagano prefecture petitioned the governor to remove posters issued by the Nagano Prefectural Police and the Japan Crime and Fire Prevention Communication Association that depicted foreigners committing crimes. (references)
Political Economy	URUGUAY	In 2000 and 2001, the International Intellectual Property Rights Alliance (IIPA) petitioned USTR to review Uruguay's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits as a result of Uruguay's continued failure to meet its TRIPS obligations. (references)
Political Rights	Costa Rica	In September 2000, the constitutional provision regarding presidential reelection was challenged when former President Oscar Arias petitioned to be allowed to participate in the 2002 election. (references)
	Ghana	In 2000 a group of female parliamentarians and women's rights activists petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC) to waive registration fees for female candidates to encourage more women to run for office. (references)
	Uganda	Byanyima petitioned the Mbarara High Court to stay the recount. (references)
Worker Rights	Nicaragua	Included in the request were 26 of 34 workers who had petitioned in that same month to certify the CST union. (references)
	Macau	In another case, after dozens of foreign workers suddenly were laid off by a garment manufacturer, they petitioned the Government over being paid a fraction of their wages. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Susan McDougal	I was so surprised. I hadn't asked for it. I had not petitioned for it. I didn't think it was proper for me to do that, because it was really his decision. But if there was one person in the world that knew I was innocent, it was Bill Clinton.
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"PETITIONED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 65.29% of the time. "PETITIONED" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	65.29%	79	37,388
Lexical Verb (past participle)	32.23%	39	55,036
Adjective (general or positive)	2.48%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	121	N/A

Language		Translations for "PETITIONED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		诉请 (Petitioning). (various references)

German		ersuchte (beseeched, besought, entreated). (various references)

Korean		각축하는 (Competed). (various references)

Pig Latin		etitionedpay

Russian		ходатайствовать (intercede, move, petition, petitioning, plead, solicit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "PETITIONED": counterpetitioned. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"PETITIONED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: editioned, petitional. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "PETITIONED" (pronounced puti"shund)
6	-t i" sh u n d	partitioned.
5	-i" sh u n d	auditioned, commissioned, conditioned, decommissioned, positioned, propositioned, reconditioned, repositioned, requisitioned.
4	-sh u n d	aforementioned, apportioned, auctioned, captioned, cautioned, cushioned, fashioned, functioned, impassioned, malfunctioned, mentioned, motioned, optioned, proportioned, rationed, sanctioned, sectioned, stationed, unsanctioned, vacationed.
3	-u n d	abandoned, aland, almond, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, cordoned, cottoned, dampened, darkened, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, margined, millisecond, moistened, moribund, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, poisoned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, questioned, quickened, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reexamined, reopened, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, seasoned, second, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, upland, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-o-p-t-t"
	-2 letters: petition.
	-3 letters: dinette, edition, epidote, pentode, pointed, potteen, tiptoed.
	-4 letters: denote, depone, detent, dipnet, endite, indite, iodine, netted, opened, opined, peined, petite, petted, pinite, pitied, pitted, podite, pointe, ponied, poteen, potent, potted, tented, tentie, tiepin, tineid, tinted, tiptoe, toited.
	-5 letters: depot, diene, ditto, donee, epode, idiot, indie, inept, iodin, netop, nitid, noted, opine, opted.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-o-p-t-t"
	+3 letters: decrepitation, premeditation, repartitioned.
	+4 letters: decrepitations, depigmentation, predestination, premeditations.
	+5 letters: acetophenetidin, depigmentations, photosensitized, predestinations, pseudoscientist.
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