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Demand   /dɪmˈænd/   Listen
Demand

noun
1.
An urgent or peremptory request.
2.
The ability and desire to purchase goods and services.  "The demand exceeded the supply"
3.
Required activity.  Synonym: requirement.  "There were many demands on his time"
4.
The act of demanding.
5.
A condition requiring relief.  Synonym: need.  "God has no need of men to accomplish His work" , "There is a demand for jobs"
verb
(past & past part. demanded; pres. part. demanding)
1.
Request urgently and forcefully.  "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately" , "She demanded to see the manager"
2.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
3.
Claim as due or just.  Synonym: exact.
4.
Lay legal claim to.
5.
Summon to court.
6.
Ask to be informed of.



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"Demand" Quotes from Famous Books



... way to pick up other bits of the river story, and especially those concerning the peculiar colonial home life on the James. When tobacco culture, with its ceaseless demand for virgin soil, led many of the colonists to abandon James Towne and to build up great individual estates, each estate had to have its water front; and old Powhatan became lined on both sides with vast ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... ranks with a marechal of France, should have found himself under the orders of five or six lieutenants or majors, good to make spies of, possibly, but not at all fit to conduct a warlike expedition. It was upon this subject I came to demand an explanation of your majesty, when I found the door closed against me, which, the final insult offered to a brave man, has led me to quit ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... paid a long price for the dog, for they were beginning to be in demand at the French court, and the sailor knew he had got hold of a good thing; but Anne's pleasure was so great that, to see her laugh and play with the little animal, her husband would doubtless have given ...
— Kerfol - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... "you will explain to me what this all means. A young man doesn't rush into a house and make an uproar like that and demand the blood of a family ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac
... naked over the waters about the equator. I wrapped round its unhonoured form the royal mantle of the tropics, and have essayed to put into the hollow sound the very anguish of paternity—feats which you did not demand from me—but remember that all the toil and all the pain were mine. In your earthly life you haunted me, Almayer. Consider that this was taking a great liberty. Since you were always complaining of being lost to ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad


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