asking for the reply vs asking for reply

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Asking for the reply' is used when you are specifically asking for a particular reply or response. 'Asking for reply' is more general and can be used when requesting any kind of response.

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asking for the reply

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when you are specifically asking for a particular reply or response.

Examples:

I am asking for the reply to my email sent last week.
She kept asking for the reply to her job application.
He is still waiting for the reply to his proposal.

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Madam President, I very much regret that Mr Pöttering did not give me the floor when I requested it, because I was simply asking him for the right of reply, and I would have preferred it to be while the President of the Council was here.
By letter dated 20 November 2009, the Commission requested further information from the French authorities, asking for a reply within twenty days.
(4) Having received no reply, the Commission sent the Italian authorities telex AGR 30656 of 20 December 2002, asking them to reply within one month.
Having received no reply, the Commission sent the Italian authorities telex AGR 30656 of 20 December 2002, asking them to reply within one month.
The environmental organisation took recourse to the European Ombudsman, who prepared a draft recommendation addressed to the Commission a month later, asking it to reply within three months, in accordance with Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
I think that is the question that is being asked and the question to which you are asking us to reply.
Once again, on 8 June, I wrote to the Greek minister asking for a follow-up to his initial reply of 27 April.
Questionnaire replies were received from the GOT and all of the other sampled groups of exporting producers in Turkey and the companies asking for individual examination.
If Mr Goebbels is asking on which article this is based, then the reply is on Articles 202 and 211.
The reply does absolutely nothing to answer my original questions, and so I am now asking these supplementaries: 1.
We are asking for more precise and more rapid information and replies from Member States.
You told us, Commissioner Frattini, that you have written letters to Poland and Romania asking for explanations but have not received replies.
This is not an opportunity for you to give a lesson to the Commissioner in the reply, but of asking the questions which you consider to be appropriate.
Mr President, I am not happy with the reply by the President-in-Office of the Council, because I was asking him about the humanitarian situation of five thousand persons currently living in Spain in wretched conditions.
The parties did not request an oral hearing, although this would have been the occasion for them to know the main content of the replies to the SO, for which they had been asking.
Another clear hint of 'deference' to EL is found in a letter of 7 August 2000, where the FSA replies to the German regulator BAV asking for an update on EL after the House of Lords ruling.
There's someone asking for Alicia Florrick.
Reporter Nam's father called asking for you.
NYPD called twice asking for cause of death.
We are not asking for more money.

Alternatives:

requesting the reply
inquiring about the reply
seeking the reply
demanding the reply
looking for the reply

asking for reply

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is more general and can be used when requesting any kind of response.

Examples:

I am asking for reply from the team on the project status.
She keeps asking for reply from the customer service.
He is still waiting for reply from the authorities.

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By letter dated 20 November 2009, the Commission requested further information from the French authorities, asking for a reply within twenty days.
(4) Having received no reply, the Commission sent the Italian authorities telex AGR 30656 of 20 December 2002, asking them to reply within one month.
Having received no reply, the Commission sent the Italian authorities telex AGR 30656 of 20 December 2002, asking them to reply within one month.
The environmental organisation took recourse to the European Ombudsman, who prepared a draft recommendation addressed to the Commission a month later, asking it to reply within three months, in accordance with Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
I think that is the question that is being asked and the question to which you are asking us to reply.
Once again, on 8 June, I wrote to the Greek minister asking for a follow-up to his initial reply of 27 April.
Questionnaire replies were received from the GOT and all of the other sampled groups of exporting producers in Turkey and the companies asking for individual examination.
We are asking for more precise and more rapid information and replies from Member States.
You told us, Commissioner Frattini, that you have written letters to Poland and Romania asking for explanations but have not received replies.
Another clear hint of 'deference' to EL is found in a letter of 7 August 2000, where the FSA replies to the German regulator BAV asking for an update on EL after the House of Lords ruling.
There's someone asking for Alicia Florrick.
Reporter Nam's father called asking for you.
NYPD called twice asking for cause of death.
We are not asking for more money.
Especially asking for nothing in exchange.
They're asking for our representative.
Her Highness Cinderella is asking for you.
Giulia's awake and asking for you.
Without asking for anything in return.
Nobody is asking for exemption measures or so-called group exemptions.

Alternatives:

requesting reply
inquiring about reply
seeking reply
demanding reply
looking for reply

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