asking for
Making a request
Asking for means to request or seek something from someone.
She's asking for a raise.
The phrase also carries a figurative sense of inviting trouble or negative consequences through reckless or foolish behavior: Driving drunk is just asking for an accident.
In this usage, the person isn't literally requesting the bad outcome but is behaving in ways that make it likely or inevitable.
- requestingAsking for something
- enquireRequest information formally
- helpAssistance given
- hopingDesiring with expectation
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
needing · information · pleading · advice · second opinion · soliciting · look · seeking · petitioning · hand · desperate · offer · permission · politely · forgiveness · trouble · too much · knocking
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Act of acquiring
demanding · seizing · grabbing · commanding · snatching
asking forrefusing
Declining to accept
declining · rejecting · doing without · forgoing · suffering in silence
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