English Explanatory Dictionary

demand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
  2. 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.
  3. A forceful claim for something.
  4. A requirement.
  5. An urgent request.
  6. An order.
  7. 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.
verb
  1. To request forcefully.
  2. To claim a right to something.
  3. To ask forcefully for information.
  4. To require of someone.
  5. To issue a summons to court.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈmɑːnd/ /dɪˈmænd/ /dəˈmænd/ en-us-demand.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demand.wav

Word forms

demand demands demaund demaunde demanding demanded no-table-tags glossary demandest demandedst demandeth

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Proto-Italic *manuðō 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.

Synonyms

imposition call for insist stipulate frain

Antonyms

supply

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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