behestnoun
uk/bɪˈhest/us/bɪˈhest/formalat sb's behest/at the behest of sb
because someone has asked or ordered you to do something:
The budget proposal was adopted at the mayor's behest.
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Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- 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
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Giving orders & commands