Definitions for demanding

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demanding de·mand·ing

Spelling: [dih-man-ding, -mahn-]

IPA: /dɪˈmæn dɪŋ, -ˈmɑn-/

Demanding is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in demanding (addegimnn).

Definitions for demanding

adjective

1. requiring or claiming more than is generally felt by others to be due:
2. calling for intensive effort or attention; taxing:

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.

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:

Origin of demanding

First recorded in 1520-30; demand + -ing²

Examples for demanding

She felt that she heard him listening, that she heard him demanding the sound.

Before their sitdown Friday, Justice League NYC had been demanding a meeting with the mayor for more than a week.

To Madrid, then, I hastened, on the pretence of demanding promotion.

To this day, Tavakoli is languishing in prison for nothing more than demanding basic human rights.

Conservatives get nowhere by demanding “deregulation,” because liberals are correct that most Americans want clean water.

I have never treated the subject as other than demanding heedful 2.

As I forced my exhausted body to exercise, I yelled at my legs like a drill sergeant, demanding five more minutes or one more set.

For the first time, she was facing problems and demanding an answer.

You have not made smaller your requests—no, you are now demanding more!

The deacon said he is demanding an explanation from Williams.