ask for sb
— phrasal verb with ask uk/ɑːsk/us/æsk/verb
to say that you would like to see or speak to someone:
A young man was here asking for you this morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
- sponge
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