English Online Dictionary. What means demand? What does demand mean?
English
Alternative forms
- demaund, demaunde (obsolete)
Etymology
From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈmɑːnd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈmænd/, /dəˈmænd/
- Rhymes: -ɑːnd, -ænd
- Hyphenation: de‧mand
Noun
demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
Usage notes
One can also make demands on someone.
- See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.
Synonyms
- (a requirement): imposition
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)
- To request forcefully.
- To claim a right to something.
- To ask forcefully for information.
- To require of someone.
- (law) To issue a summons to court.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- call for
- insist
- (ask strongly): frain
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded