different between demand vs extort

English

Alternative forms

• demaund, demaunde (obsolete)

Etymology

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin d?mand?, d?mand?re.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??mænd/, /d??mænd/
• Rhymes: -??nd, -ænd
• Hyphenation: de?mand

Noun

demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
2. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.
4. A requirement.

5. An urgent request.

6. An order.
7. (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.

Usage notes

One can also make demands on someone.

• See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.

Synonyms

• (a requirement): imposition

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)

1. To request forcefully.

2. To claim a right to something.

3. To ask forcefully for information.

4. To require of someone.

5. (law) To issue a summons to court.

Synonyms

• call for

• insist
• (ask strongly): frain

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torque? (“twist, turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Verb

extort (third-person singular simple present extorts, present participle extorting, simple past and past participle extorted)

1. (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
2. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
3. (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.

Synonyms

• (take by force): wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact

Derived terms

• extortion
• extortionate
• extortionist

Translations

See also

• intort

Adjective

extort (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Wrongfully obtained.