requester

English

Etymology

From request +‎ -er; compare requestor, requestress.

Noun

requester (plural requesters)

1. One who, or that which, makes a request.
2. (graphical user interface) A dialog box that prompts the user to choose from a list.
   • 2005, Timothy Albee, Steve Warner, Robin Wood, Essential LightWave 3D: The Fastest Way to Master LightWave 3D, page 66:

     Clicking on Add True-Type brings up an OS-specific font requester. Highlighting a font and clicking OK returns you to the Edit Font List window, now with the selected font appearing in the Font pop-up menu.

   • 2007, Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis G. Stamelos, Ioannis Samoladas, Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices, page 263:

     File requesters, help files, configuration utilities, and menus would all be different […]

Coordinate terms

• requestress

Further reading

• requestor, requester at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• re-request, rerequest