demand

• 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