how to pronounce petition

/pəˈtɪʃən/

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petition is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of petition in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… as silly as the petition was there …”

meaning of petition

Petition is a formal request made to a government or other authority for a particular action or course of action.

petition frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word petition occurs in english on average 9.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics petition can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that petition can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;