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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

Latin limitatio.

Morphologically limit +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?m??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

limitation (countable and uncountable, plural limitations)

1. The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
2. A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
3. An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
4. (law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

   The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.

Synonyms

• (time period): prescription

Antonyms

• limitlessness

Derived terms

• limitational
• statute of limitations

Related terms

• limitative

Translations

References

• limitation at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• militation

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.mi.ta.sj??/

Noun

limitation f (plural limitations)

1. limitation (action of limiting)