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Verb: ask  ãsk
  1. Request information about
    - inquire, enquire [Brit, Cdn]
  2. Make a request or demand for something to somebody
    "She asked him for a loan"
  3. Direct or put; seek an answer to
    "ask a question"
  4. Consider obligatory; request and expect
    "Aren't we asking too much of these children?";
    - require, expect
  5. Address a question to and expect an answer from
    "This job asks a lot of patience and skill";
    - necessitate, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
  7. Require or ask for as a price or condition

Derived forms: asks, asking, asked

See also: ask in, ask out, ask over

Type of: address, articulate, bespeak, call for, communicate, demand, formulate, give voice, intercommunicate, phrase, quest, request, turn to, word

Encyclopedia: Ask, Buskerud