DEMAND
Definition:
- [noun] the ability and desire to purchase goods and services; "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply"
- [noun] an urgent or peremptory request; "his demands for attention were unceasing"
- [noun] a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
Synonyms: need
- [noun] the act of demanding; "the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money"
- [noun] required activity; "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time"
Synonyms: requirement
- [verb] request urgently and forcefully; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager"
- [verb] require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "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 postulates a patient's consent"
Synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for
- [verb] claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
Synonyms: exact
- [verb] lay legal claim to
- [verb] summon to court
- [verb] ask to be informed of; "I demand an explanation"
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Related Words:
- want
- ask, require, expect
- clamor, clamour
- dun
- ask
- claim, take, exact
- govern
- draw
- cost
- cry out for, cry for
- imply, involve
- command
- call, call in
- consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
- challenge
- ultimatum
- insistence, insisting
- call, claim
- requisition
- call
- margin call, call
- wage claim, pay claim
- lack, deficiency, want
- necessity
- exaction
- claim
