ask

Verb

• require or ask for as a price or condition
  • He is asking $200 for the table
    
  • The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage
    

• require as useful, just, or proper
  • It takes nerve to do what she did
    
  • success usually requires hard work
    
  • This job asks a lot of patience and skill
    
  • This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
    
  • This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
    
  • This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
    

• address a question to and expect an answer from
  • Ask your teacher about trigonometry
    
  • The children asked me about their dead grandmother
    

• consider obligatory; request and expect
  • We require our secretary to be on time
    
  • Aren't we asking too much of these children?
    
  • I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons
    

• direct or put; seek an answer to
  • ask a question
    

• make a request or demand for something to somebody
  • She asked him for a loan
    

• inquire about
  • I asked about their special today
    
  • He had to ask directions several times
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  necessitate , postulate , need , require , take , involve , call for , demand , expect , inquire , enquire
• Antonyms: 
  obviate , rid of , eliminate