petition

pétition, requête

Demande écrite adressée à une autorité pour obtenir une action ou un changement, souvent signée par plusieurs personnes.

En anglais simple : A written request asking an authority to do or change something, often signed by many people.

• Please sign our petition.
• The council received a petition asking for a safer crossing.
• Thousands of people supported the petition.

Comment l'utiliser : a petition for something (They submitted a petition for better bus services.); a petition to do something (We signed a petition to save the library.)

Synonymes : formal request

Expressions courantes : sign a petition, submit a petition, petition for something, circulate a petition

supplication, prière

Demande d’aide insistante et respectueuse, souvent adressée à une personne puissante ou faite dans une prière.

En anglais simple : A serious, respectful request for help, often made in prayer or to someone powerful.

• Their petition asked for mercy.
• She ended her prayer with a petition for peace.
• The ruler listened to the poor man’s humble petition.

Comment l'utiliser : a petition for something (The king heard their petition for mercy.)

Synonymes : plea, supplication, prayer

Expressions courantes : a humble petition, petition for mercy, petition to god

adresser une pétition, demander

Demander officiellement à une autorité de faire quelque chose, généralement par écrit.

En anglais simple : To formally ask an authority to do something, usually in writing.

• We petitioned for better roads.
• Parents are petitioning the school to change its rules.
• The group petitioned the court for permission to appeal.

Comment l'utiliser : petition someone for something (The residents petitioned the council for a new crossing.); petition someone to do something (We petitioned the mayor to reopen the pool.); petition for something (The workers petitioned for shorter hours.)

Synonymes : appeal, request

Expressions courantes : petition the government, petition for something, petition against something