The phrase "asks for closer" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The manager asks for closer collaboration between the teams to improve efficiency."
Alternatives: "requests more proximity" or "seeks tighter integration."
He has high-flown sorties and syntax that asks for close attention (and rewards it), and his range of allusions is so far-flung that some of his poems need explanatory notes before they open up to the modern reader.
Europe's new counterterrorism coordinator, Gijs de Vries, is scheduled to meet with Tom Ridge, the secretary of homeland security, in Washington on Monday to assure the United States that Europe is toughening its counterterrorism practices and to ask for closer cooperation between the United States and the European Union in combating terrorists.
Rocco Fraioli, who has owned Rocky's Barbershop for 34 years, said his business goes way up once the weather starts getting warm and boys, teenagers and men ask for close-cropped styles like "buzz cuts," "crew cuts," "flat tops," "butches," "high and tights," or "jarheads".
The levels of hyperkalemia that have been reported in studies are potentially life-threatening and ask for close monitoring and rapid correction.
The Dutch commander called UN Headquarters in Sarajevo asking for "close air support" after shells and rockets landed close to refugee centres and observation posts manned by peacekeepers.
In July 2008, the SAARC ministerial meeting on climate change at Dhaka asked for close regional cooperation in capacity building and also to raise awareness of climate change (Swain 2011).
Fig. 1 Four components in a multiple-choice question asking for closest-in-meaning of a word (source: TOEFL iBT question from past test, taken from the official website, http://www.ets.org).org
It is advisable for a salesperson in this situation to always ask for action, either to ask for close or for an appointment to the next meet-up.
The vocabulary question here does not ask for the best replacement; instead, it asks for the closest in meaning of the target word.
For example, this question item asks for the closest meaning of "immeasurably" among the choices: (A) "firstly", (B) "plainly", (C) "beyond measurement", and (D) "to double the degree".
