demand
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
law
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Latin mandō
Latin dēmandō
Old French demanderbor.
Middle English demaunden
English demand
From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre.
Inflected forms:
form: demands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: demaund
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: demaunde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: demands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: demand
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: demand
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: demand
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: demandest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: demandedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: demands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demandeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: demand
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: demand
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: demand
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: demanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demaund
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: demaunde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The desire to purchase goods and services.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
gloss: The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
Demand for the kitchenware with the pastel colorway has been running low lately, at an average of only 37 units per week.
gloss: A forceful claim for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
gloss: A requirement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His job makes many demands on his time.
There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
gloss: An urgent request.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.
gloss: An order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To request forcefully.
pos: verb
examples: I demand to see the manager.
The police officer will demand (that) you hand the wallet in.
gloss: To claim a right to something.
pos: verb
examples: The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
gloss: To ask forcefully for information.
pos: verb
examples: I demand an immediate explanation.
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d,
⁠Was this demanded—if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
gloss: To require of someone.
pos: verb
examples: This job demands a lot of patience.
gloss: To issue a summons to court.
pos: verb
Synonyms: call for
insist
stipulate
Derived words: biochemical oxygen demand
biological oxygen demand
composite demand
counterdemand
cross elasticity of demand
cross-price elasticity of demand
deficient-demand unemployment
demand account
demand characteristic
demand curve
demand-deficient unemployment
demand deposit
demand destruction
demand draft
demand-driven
demand letter
demand note
demand paging
demand partner
demand planning
demand-pull inflation
demand side
demand valve
income elasticity of demand
in demand
law of demand
nondemand
on-demand
on demand
overdemand
oxygen demand
price elasticity of demand
print on demand
print-on-demand
supply and demand
theoretical oxygen demand
redemand
demandable
demandee
undemanded
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