Word Finder - demand

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The desire to purchase goods and services.

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Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.

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The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.

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A forceful claim for something.

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Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.

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A requirement.

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His job makes many demands on his time.

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An urgent request.

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She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.

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An order.

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(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.

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To request forcefully.

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I demand to see the manager.

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To claim a right to something.

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The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.

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To ask forcefully for information.

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I demand an immediate explanation.

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To require of someone.

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This job demands a lot of patience.

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To issue a summons to court.

If you don't stand up and demand a change, he'll keep on doing it.

An undisclosed ransom demand was made.

But they did not satisfy his demand for intelligence.

He wanted to scream at him; to demand an explanation, but understood how fruitless that would be and measured his best course to remain calm.

The Convention was reconvened on the 12th of February 1863, and the demand of Congress was met.

She would tell him what she thought of him and demand that he let the twins go with her.

He had never experienced this intimacy with a lady of breeding, and knew that if her family ever learned of their actions, they would demand restitution for his behavior.

Fresh bread sat on the table near her bed, its scent making her stomach demand to be sated.

In 238 B.C. the Carthaginian mercenaries revolted, and the Romans took advantage of the fact to demand that the island should be given period.

Would he still be gentle and respectful, or would he suddenly demand husbandly rights?

Normally she acquiesced in favor of a paycheck, but Lacy's demand was bizarre, even by Lacy-standards.

Dean took a deep breath, half expecting Ryland to demand that Edith leave, but there was only silence.

Pasteur first formulated the idea that bacteria are responsible for the diseases of fermented liquids; the corollary of this was a demand for pure yeast.

The maximum wage you can earn, though, is defined by supply and demand for labor, and by your negotiating ability, but it also has a cap.

It sounded more like a demand than a request.

His first thought was to call Ms. Larkin and demand further details.

In 1861 the Mortara family induced the Italian government to demand the prosecution of the nurse.

Cynthia devoured every publication she could find on the subject and was looking forward to spending some quality time hiking the high country, if the demand of Bird Song's chores would allow snatches of free time.

The feast must be important, and his attempt to request her attendance-- rather than demand it-- impressed her.

He was torn between wanting to confront Ne'Rin and demand he make his sister an honorable woman and laughing out loud to know that he had chosen a nishani capable of healing his planet, his people.

Does our intelligence demand unity?

Books were in demand and were multiplied.

The individual must carry their license while in the process of fishing and produce it upon demand from a conservation officer.

Its mission statement is to demand transparency after a crime is committed and to assure all efforts to nail the guilty party are being pursued.

It is enough then here to observe that Iran and Babylonia do, as a matter of fact, continually yield the explorer objects of workmanship either Greek or influenced by Greek models, belonging to the age after Alexander, and that we may hence infer at any rate such an influence of Hellenism upon the tastes of the richer classes as would create a demand for these things.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you.

Wine is manufactured in large quantities, but the output is not sufficient to meet the home demand.

She looked up at the uncharacteristic demand.

Dean repeated his demand.

Here they had their own lands, and some form of local government by elders, and appear to have been prosperous and contented; probably the only demand made on them by the Babylonian government was the payment of taxes.

The soil is not very productive, although agriculture flourishes in the valleys and on the level ground; grain has to be imported to meet the demand.

In parliamentary politics the most notable event in 1902 was the presentation of a divorce bill by Signor Zanardellis government; this was done not because there was any real demand for it, but to please the doctrinaire 1902.

Hyndman and others in Socialist meetings and processions in London to demand work for the unemployed.

In 1887, under the leadership of Dr Adler, the socialist party began to revive (the party of violence having died away), and since then it has steadily gained in numbers; in the forefront of the political programme is put the demand for universal suffrage.

His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.

In those departments of intellectual activity which demand no high ideal faculty, in the study of the world of fact, the centuries immediately following Alexander witnessed notable advance.

I did not see why the lyceum should not present its tax-bill, and have the State to back its demand, as well as the Church.

The next demand was for greater fixity of tenure and more regular promotion, as well as for the recognition by the companies of the railwaymens union.

The deputies of the Extreme Left, instead of using their influence in favor of pacification, could think of nothing better than to demand an immediate convocation of parliament in order that they might present a bill forbidding the troops and police to use their arms in all conflicts between capital and labor, whatever the provocation might be.

I demand our release immediately, I am a Parrish!

The gradual elaboration of the sacrificial ceremonial, as the all-sufficient expression of religious devotion, and a constantly growing tendency towards theosophic and mystic speculation on the significance of every detail of the ritual, could not fail to create a demand for explanatory treatises of this kind, which, to enhance their practical utility, would naturally deal with the special texts and rites assigned in the ceremonial to the several classes of officiating priests.

At a subsequent period the demand for instruction in the sacrificial science called into existence a still more practical set of manuals, the so-called Kalpa-sutras, or ceremonial rules, detailing, in succinct aphorisms, the approved course of sacrificial procedure, without reference to the supposed origin or import of the several rites.

On the demand of Lennox, Darnley's father, Bothwell was put upon his trial, in April, but Lennox, having been forbidden to enter the city with more than six attendants, refused to attend, and Bothwell was declared not guilty.

In 1885 Uruguay imported most of her breadstuffs; now not only is wheat grown in sufficient quantities to meet the local demand, but a surplus (about 20,000 metric tons in 1908-9) is annually available for export.

Mention should be made of the mass of general legislation passed, principally by western states, since 1905, in response to a popular demand for lower rates.

This demand has in many instances led to ill-considered legislation, has frequently ignored the prerogatives and even the existence of the state commissions, and has brought about the passage by state legislatures of maximum freight and passenger rate laws, with rates so low in many cases that they have been set aside by the courts as unconstitutional.

This high mean pressure cannot be maintained for long, because as the speed increases the demand for steam per unit of time increases, so that cut-off must take place earlier and earlier in the stroke, the limiting steady speed being attained when the rate at which steam is supplied to the cylinders is adjusted by the cut-off to be equal to the maximum rate at which the boiler can produce steam, which depends upon the maximum rate at which coal can be burnt per square foot of grate.

The prophet also emphasized with passionate earnestness that Yahweh was a God whose character was righteous, and God's demand upon His people Israel was not for sacrifices but for righteous conduct.

The entire impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and a third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.

He himself held supreme sway over all Israel as the last of the " judges " until compelled to accede to the popular demand for a king.