demand

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)

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
2. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.
4. A requirement.

5. An urgent request.

6. An order.
7. (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)

1. To request forcefully.

2. To claim a right to something.
3. To ask forcefully for information.
4. To require of someone.

5. (law) To issue a summons to court.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• call for

• insist
• (ask strongly): frain

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded