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Meaning demand meaning

What does demand mean?
Definitions in simple English

demand Noun

— Demand for something is how much people want of it. Right now we have a supply in excess of demand for crude oil, gasoline, and heating oil. The power companies should begin to prepare for increased demand for electricity. Several sectors were not able to increase their production levels to satisfy the demand requirements. Colleges have hired more part-time instructors to meet this increased educational demand. — A demand is what you say must be done or what you say you must have, a strong request. His demands for new machines were ignored by the company. — The demands on someone or something are the difficult things that are required of them. I can't deal with all these demands on my time. The demands on the machines are beyond what they can produce.

demand Verb

— If you demand something, you say strongly that you must receive it or that it must happen. The Lebanese Foreign Minister demanded an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces. People who lost their home are demanding answers about how the fire got out of control. — If mathx/math demands mathy/math, mathx/math needs or requires mathy/math. The problems are real and they demand attention.

demand

— verb request urgently and forcefully The victim's family is demanding compensation The boss demanded that he be fired immediately She demanded to see the manager — noun an urgent or peremptory request his demands for attention were unceasing — verb (= ask, postulate, require, take, call for) require as useful, just, or proper It takes nerve to do what she did success usually requires hard work This job asks a lot of patience and skill This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent — noun the ability and desire to purchase goods and services the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips the demand exceeded the supply — verb claim as due or just The bank demanded payment of the loan — noun (= requirement) required activity the requirements of his work affected his health there were many demands on his time — noun the act of demanding the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money — noun (= need) a condition requiring relief she satisfied his need for affection God has no need of men to accomplish His work there is a demand for jobs — verb ask to be informed of I demand an explanation — verb summon to court — verb lay legal claim to

Synonyms demand synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as demand?

demand English » English

request claim require ask ask for requirement need call postulate exact want beg call for petition order necessitate appeal urge sale necessity wish requisition press pray invite take summon solicit question pretension desire application prayer insist command wish for supplication summons occasion govern expect dictate decree charge bid will ultimatum tell suppose sue

Topics demand topics

What do people use demand to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Insist
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Popular
States Quantity Enough

Need

Conjugation demand conjugation

How do you conjugate demand?

demand · verb

Examples demand examples

How do I use demand in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There is a great demand for gasoline.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Toilet keys are available on demand.
We demand your unconditional surrender.
The desire emerges between need and demand.
Supplies cannot keep up with the demand.
The supply can not keep up with the demand.
The price reflects the demand.
Prices depend on supply and demand.
Price depends on costs and demand.
Demand for imported cars is increasing due to lower prices.
I demand to know what's going on here.
Those books are always in great demand.
The demand was summarily rejected.
Our catalog will be sent on demand.
There is much demand for nurses in this hospital.
This new model of car is so popular that they have had to open a new factory to meet the demand.
These goods are in great demand.
We must reduce energy demand.
Demand the exclusion of the country from the U. N.
Is there much demand for these goods?
I'm afraid this sounds like a demand, but could you return the money I lent you the other day?
Recently the demand for this product has increased faster than the supply.
We have a right to demand a safe future for ourselves and future generations.
As the demand increases, prices go up.
The new contract enables us to demand whatever we want.
The demand was brought down by increases in imports.
Imported cars are in strong demand.

Movie subtitles

If you're going to interrogate me, I demand a lawyer.
Believing Ulysses to be dead, the suitors take possession of his house and demand that Penelope choose a new husband among them.
Go to the Minister Choiseul with this demand.
Demand from me what you will, only not that!
Safe conduct from these halls I demand for me and my following!
Margrave Ruediger, I demand from you the assassin of Siegfried!
But if it concerns Miss Cameron, I'll demand an explanation.
And all they demand is for us to part.
I demand the detectives. It's in my contract.
And that it reports the truth about Germany. is the only demand that we place on the foreign press.
Big demand for these now.
I demand you allow me to telephone the High Commissioner for Canada in London.
I demand me money back!
I demand Mr. Deeds. dispense with side remarks and confine himself to facts.
If he came to the festivities, as you demand, he would spoil them. and instead of lust horror would pave its way.
I demand that the honour of white people be protected from the encroachments of colored scoundrels.
Captain, I demand that that man give me my money.
I demand that the prosecution produce some one witness who will swear to one definite thing or I demand that Mata Hari be acquitted with the apologies of the court.
I must confess, I dont quite know the standard of respectability that you demand in your boarding house, Mrs Haggerty.
You're the only one who can demand of the Queen to send the Spaniard home.
They demand entrance to the palace.
But aren't you forgetting. that a man's bitter heart may demand revenge?
But remember, sir, I shall demand a court of inquiry in England.
I demand to know who she is.
There will always be the demand.
There's a demand, so I fill that demand.
The demand is so crazy, I can barely keep up.
We should go en masse and demand to speak to whoever's in charge and make them understand they can't just keep us here.
We demand to be brought before the king.
Now, I demand a showdown.
I demand to be immediately released. my partner, Lieutenant Saint-Avit and myself That is all.
You demand the president's resignation and break your necks to elect a new president.
I demand that you see the Minister of Education.
I demand you leave.
Ladies and gentlemen the final number. By popular demand..

News and current affairs

Indeed, America's current-account position strengthened despite the dollar's appreciation in the face of safe-haven demand.
Iran may ask what right others have to demand that it forego nuclear weapons.
It offers an answer to rising demand for healthy food with minimal environmental side effects.
Prior to the crisis, many suspected that the mix of aggregate demand that was supporting high growth was unsustainable, though the problem perhaps seemed too hypothetical to compel collective action.
And, as we have seen in many countries' efforts to ameliorate the crisis, the non-cooperative protectionist response is much more likely to be adopted - despite wide recognition that it is highly destructive - when aggregate demand is in short supply.
Second, everyone must recognize their stake in restoring balanced advanced-country growth as much and as soon as possible in order to counter the ongoing shortfall in aggregate demand.
If monetary policy is not effective, the only lever the American government has to manage its economy is fiscal policy: changes in the government's tax and spending plans to change the government's direct contribution to aggregate demand.
The first was the Keynesian high-water mark of confidence in demand management of the 1960s.
But, because this cannot happen for all major economies simultaneously - one country's (or group of countries') austerity implies less demand for other countries' products - such policies eventually lead to beggar-thy-neighbor situations.
Today's problems are compounded by a lack of sufficient private demand - particularly household consumption - in the advanced economies to compensate for demand losses stemming from austerity.
Moreover, major advanced economies, such as the United States, Germany, and Japan, face longer-term fiscal problems in the form of aging populations or oversize welfare states, limiting their capacity to contribute to demand management.
For domestic demand to act as an engine of growth, policies should shift resources from investment to consumption.
It also requires a substantial reform of the monetary union's system of economic governance, aimed at restoring financial stability and lowering borrowing costs, together with a boost in external demand in order to compensate for the effects of austerity.
As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.
If the slowdown in advanced countries persists, pre-crisis growth levels will not be achievable in the developing world either, owing to insufficient demand to absorb the implied increase in output.
The second is a set of understandings and commitments among the major advanced and developing countries to rebalance the global economy in order to restore aggregate demand and growth.
The first, better-known diagnosis is that demand has collapsed because of high debt accumulated prior to the crisis.
What matters is their output of modern industrial goods (and services), which can expand without limit as long as domestic demand expands simultaneously.
Concerning external demand, intra-European help in the form of reflationary policies in stronger economies is unlikely to prove sufficient, owing primarily to the fiscal and political conditions prevailing in Germany.
Only the emerging and developing economies of Asia could effectively contribute to lifting global demand through a coordinated effort aimed at boosting domestic consumption, which, in turn, would stimulate additional investment.
So what can be done to shore up global aggregate demand and growth prospects, while preserving the economic openness that has benefited major parts of the developing world so greatly in the past 30 years?

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