Usually means: Formal request addressed to authority.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word petition:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. petition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. petition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. petition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Petition, petition: Wordnik
  7. petition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. petition: Wiktionary
  9. petition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. petition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. petition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. petition: Dictionary.com
  13. petition (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. petition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Petition (disambiguation), Petition (film), Petition (horse), Petition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Petition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. petition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. petition: Rhymezone
  19. Petition (f), petition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. petition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. petition: Free Dictionary
  22. petition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. petition: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. petition: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. petition: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Petition: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  9. Petition: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Petition: INSOLVENCY
  12. petition: Legal dictionary
  13. petition: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. petition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. petition: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Petition: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See petitionary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
noun:  A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
noun:  (law) A formal written request for judicial action.
noun:  A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
verb:  (transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.

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