demand
IPA: dɪmˈænd
noun
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
verb
- To request forcefully.
- To claim a right to something.
- To ask forcefully for information.
- To require of someone.
- (law) To issue a summons to court.
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Examples of "demand" in Sentences
- The task demands creativeness.
- The King and demands the throne.
- The faculty refused the demands.
- The congress accepted the demand.
- Naturally that demands circumspection.
- The program was intense and demanding.
- The parent is demanding and responsive.
- It is disingenuous to demand the impossible.
- The demands in the preamble are not mentioned.
- It correspond to the expenditure and not the demand
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