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A demand wearing a please for job security.
means To formally ask for something, often while pretending you'd be fine if the answer were no.
from From Old French requeste, rooted in Latin requirere — 're-' (again) plus 'quaerere' (to seek or ask). The same 'quaerere' gives us 'question' and 'inquire,' so a request is literally a seeking repeated, insisted upon, dressed up as mere curiosity.
- power move
- lets you ask without owning the no
- legal cousin
- becomes a demand once lawyers get cc'd
- etymology
- from latin requirere, to seek again
- office use
- often means ignore until third follow-up email