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demand
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)
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- (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)
- To request forcefully.
- To claim a right to something.
- To ask forcefully for information.
- To require of someone.
- (law) To issue a summons to court.
Synonyms
- call for
- insist
- (ask strongly): frain
Translations
Anagrams
- Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded
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insistence
English
Etymology
From Middle English insistence, derived from Old French insister (“to insist”). Compare Middle French insistance.
Morphologically insist +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?st?ns/
Noun
insistence (countable and uncountable, plural insistences)
- The state of being insistent.
- An urgent demand.
- (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
Related terms
- insist
Translations
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