different between demand vs remand

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

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

remand (countable and uncountable, plural remands)

1. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
   • 2007, Andrew Ewang Sone, Readings in the Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code, p. 139:

     As earlier stated, remand in custody under the new Code is an exceptional measure.

2. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
   • 2010, Steven Baicker-McKee, John B. Corr, A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, p. 102:

     If remand is based on a failure of federal subject matter jurisdiction or a shortcoming in the process of removal, the remand becomes effective even earlier […]

Translations

Verb

remand (third-person singular simple present remands, present participle remanding, simple past and past participle remanded)

1. To send a prisoner back to custody.

   • Charged with Linda Cook's murder, he was remanded in custody at Winchester Prison the same month. Murder_of_Linda_Cook

2. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
3. (obsolete) To send back.

   • Remand it to its former place.

Derived terms

• on remand
• remandment

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Erdman, Mander, Marden, Menard, Redman, damner, mander, manred, mrenda, randem, red man, redman