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"Demand" Definition

noun

An urgent requirement or need: the heavy demands of her job; the emotional demands of his marriage; an increased oxygen demand.
Archaic An emphatic question or inquiry.
Computer Science A coding technique in which a command to read or write is initiated as the need for a new block of data occurs, thus eliminating the need to store data.
Economics The amount of a commodity or service that people are ready to buy for a given price: Supply should rise to meet demand.
Economics The desire to possess a commodity or make use of a service, combined with the ability to purchase it.

idiom

On demand When needed or asked for: fed the baby on demand.
On demand When presented for payment: a note payable on demand.

verb-intransitive

To make a demand.

verb

To make a demand .
To ask or call for with authority claim as due or just .
To call for urgently, peremptorily, or insistently .
To ask authoritatively or earnestly to be informed of .
To require to come .

verb-transitive

Law To claim formally; lay legal claim to.
Law To summon to court.
To ask for urgently or peremptorily: demand an investigation into the murder; demanding that he leave immediately; demanded to speak to the manager.
To ask to be informed of: I demand a reason for this interruption.
To claim as just or due: demand repayment of a loan.

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