demand

Meaning

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.

require

wish for

hint at

press for

be jealous of

search for

laying claim

sue for

aspiring to

firm request

make a demand for

ask of

requi ring

sollicit

demand factor

price asked

solicit request

invoke request

claim back

information retrieval

insist on

Frequency

Hyphenated as

de‧mand

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈmɑːnd/

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

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