requestman

plural requestmen

1. governmentOne who submits a formal request.

   After the ME had made a very convincing case for going on leave Sohail asked his divisional Chief ERA, who was standing behind and to the right of the requestman, “Well, Chief. What do you say?”

   2001, Mian Zahir Shah, Bubbles of Water, Or, Anecdotes of the Pakistan Navy, page 224

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   If this was considered inadequate, the case went before the captain, who heard 'requestmen and defaulters' at a fixed time. Requestmen might ask for promotion, for special leave or some other privilege.

   2017, Brian Lavery, Churchill's Navy: The Ships, People and Organisation, 1939-1945