{
  "id": "request.social",
  "term": "request",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an interaction in which one people asks another for help or information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "interaction.process",
      "people.social",
      "help.assistance",
      "information.knowledge",
      "asks.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components enable one people to initiate contact with another in order to obtain help or information, forming a directed social exchange.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "initiated social demand",
      "asymmetric dependence",
      "communicative intent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2021, a nurse at Toronto General Hospital asked a pharmacist for the correct dosage of epinephrine during a code blue.",
      "domain": "healthcare"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1997, a user submitted a bug report to the Linux kernel mailing list asking for a fix to the TCP/IP stack.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2010 Chile mine rescue, trapped miner Mario Sepúlveda passed a note asking for food and medical supplies.",
      "domain": "disaster-response"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "help.assistance",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bill.payment",
    "commission.transaction",
    "please.politeness",
    "questions.linguistic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "request",
    "requested",
    "requesting",
    "requests"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'asks.social' to components since the definition relies on the act of asking, which is not entailed by help, information, or interaction alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-request.social"
}