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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



... pride of the duke was roused at this demand. "Tell my lord the king," said the haughty grandee, "that I have come to succor him with my household troops: if my people are ordered to any place, I am to go with them; but if I am to remain in the camp, my people must remain with me. For the troops cannot serve without their commander, ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving
... demand the most careful consideration. 'The English,' says Captain Mahan in his latest discussion of the subject, 'in the period of reaction which succeeded the Dutch Wars produced their own caricature of systematised tactics,[2] and this may be taken as well representing the current ...
— Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. • Julian S. Corbett
... with any other race is erroneous. From the time of emancipation, the colored people have had no disposition to force a social alliance with the whites. The colored citizens have all their civil and political rights, and these rights they demand. When honored colored men or women enter a first-class hotel or restaurant, or seek a decent stateroom on a steamer, they do not enter these places because they are seeking social contact with the whites, but because they demand their just privileges ...
— American Missionary, Volume 50, No. 8, August, 1896 • Various
... piled on the participating nations, will make Ministers shun schemes of reform involving a large use of national credit, or which would increase the sum of national obligations. Land purchase on the old term I believe cannot be continued. Yet we will demand the intensive cultivation of the national estate, and increased production of wealth, especially of food-stuffs. The large area of agricultural land laid down for pasture is not so productive as tilled land, does not sustain so large a population, and there will ...
— National Being - Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity • (A.E.)George William Russell
... her future. "At any rate, I am determined to make the trial, and if I find I cannot earn a living there will be time enough then to appeal to the court to appoint a different guardian for me, and demand ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon


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