Petition

Definition

petition /pǝ'tÇʃn/ n ~ (to sb ) ၁။ အသနားခံစာ။ (အထူးသျဖင့္ အမ်ားဝိုင္း လက္မွတ္ထိုးထားေသာ အသနားခံလႊာ)။ organize/ present/ sign a petition ❍ a petition against closing the Steel Works ❍ a petition for tighter safety standards ❍ get up (ie start) a petition about sth. ၂။ ( law ) တရားဝင္ ေလွ်ာက္လႊာ။ v ~ for/ against sth; ~ sb (for sth) အသနားခံသည္။ တရားဝင္ ေမတၱာရပ္သည္။ ပန္ၾကားသည္။ petition the government for equal opportunities at work ❍ petition Parliament (to allow shops to open on Sunday). ❏ petitioner /-ʃǝnǝ(r)/ n (တရား႐ံုးသို႔) ေလွ်ာက္ထားသူ၊ အသနားခံသူ။ ❏ petition for sth [ PHRV ] ( law ) ေလွ်ာက္လႊာတင္သည္။ အသနားခံသည္။ petition for divorce.

Examples

1. [petition against] : More than 300 villagers have signed a petition against the building project.
2. [petition for] : A petition for divorce
3. [file a petition] : Her lawyer has already filed a petition for her immediate release from prison.