Definitions for demand

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demand de·mand

Spelling: [dih-mand, -mahnd]

IPA: /dɪˈmænd, -ˈmɑnd/

Demand is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in demand (addemn).

Definitions for demand

noun

1. the act of demanding.
2. something that is demanded.
3. an urgent or pressing requirement:
4. Economics. the desire to purchase, coupled with the power to do so. the quantity of goods that buyers will take at a particular price.
5. a requisition; a legal claim:
6. the state of being wanted or sought for purchase or use:
7. Archaic. inquiry; question.

Idioms

1. on demand, upon presentation or request for payment:

verb (used with object)

1. to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right:
2. to ask for peremptorily or urgently:
3. to call for or require as just, proper, or necessary:
4. Law. to lay formal legal claim to. to summon, as to court.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a demand; inquire; ask.

Origin of demand

1250-1300; Middle English demaunden Anglo-French demaunder Medieval Latin dēmandāre to demand, L to entrust, equivalent to dē- de- + mandāre to commission, order; see <

Examples for demand

Something to strive for we demand, even at the risk of bereavement.

I had but to demand an investigation into the man's affairs.

“Competition is there, of course, but I think there is enough business for everyone as long as the demand is there,” he says.

That sort o' trade, ye see, miss, the demand's not steady in it.

The lawyers decided to stay in Chechnya and demand investigation of illegal actions against them and their office.

So we do demand justice and we do speak up and make demands.

Yazbek says the demand for safe crossing has made the smugglers very competitive.

My heart fluttered as I rose to comply with the demand, and the chapel was hushed.

Not for myself, but for my Master's sake, I demand your friendship and fidelity.

It was through this work that Bensoussan discovered there was a demand for ministers to perform weddings at jails and prisons.