postulation

Other forms: postulations

Definitions of postulation

1. noun

   a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
   synonyms: petition, request

   types:

   application

   a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school

   appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitation

   request for a sum of money

   demand

   an urgent or peremptory request

   motion

   a request to a court for a ruling or order

   job application

   an application for a job

   credit application

   an application for a line of credit

   loan application

   an application to borrow money

   patent application

   an application for sole rights to an invention

   whip-round

   (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose

   challenge

   a demand by a sentry for a password or identification

   ultimatum

   a final peremptory demand

   insistence, insisting

   continual and persistent demands

   call, claim

   a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"

   requisition

   the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use

   call

   a demand for a show of hands in a card game

   call, margin call

   a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement

   pay claim, wage claim

   the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives

   type of:

   content, message, subject matter, substance

   what a communication that is about something is about
2. noun

   (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
   synonyms: predication

   type of:

   declaration

   a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)