demand

Betekenis

Noun

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
2. The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.
4. A requirement.
5. An urgent request.
6. An order.
7. 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

1. To request forcefully.
2. To claim a right to something.
3. To ask forcefully for information.
4. To require of someone.
5. To issue a summons to court.

Koppelteken as

de‧mand

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɪˈmɑːnd/

Etimologie

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre.