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NOUN | 1 | demand | The ability and desire to purchase goods and services |
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2 | demand | An urgent or peremptory request | |
3 | demand, need | A condition requiring relief | |
4 | demand | The act of demanding | |
5 | demand, requirement | Required activity | |
VERB | 1 | demand | Request urgently and forcefully |
2 | demand, necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for | Require as useful, just, or proper | |
3 | demand, exact | Claim as due or just | |
4 | demand | Lay legal claim to | |
5 | demand | Summon to court | |
6 | demand | Ask to be informed of |
Sounds | dihmae'nd |
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Rhymes | ampersand, armband, backhand, and 86 more rhymes in aend at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The ability and desire to purchase goods and services. |
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Examples | "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply" |
Narrower | consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
Broader | economic process |
Contrary | supply |
Meaning | An urgent or peremptory request. |
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Examples | "his demands for attention were unceasing" |
Narrower | challenge; ultimatum; insistence, insisting; call, claim; requisition; call; margin call, call; wage claim, pay claim |
Broader | request, petition, postulation |
Verbs | demand |
Meaning | A condition requiring relief. |
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Examples | "there is a demand for jobs" |
Synonyms | need |
Narrower | lack, deficiency, want; necessity |
Broader | condition, status |
Verbs | demand |
Meaning | The act of demanding. |
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Examples | "the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money" |
Narrower | exaction; claim |
Broader | activity |
Verbs | demand; demand |
Meaning | Required activity. |
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Examples | "there were many demands on his time" |
Synonyms | requirement |
Broader | duty, responsibility, obligation |
Verbs | demand |
Meaning | Request urgently and forcefully. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
Model | They demand to move |
Examples | "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager" |
Narrower | want; ask, require, expect; clamor, clamour; dun; ask |
Broader | request, bespeak, call for, quest |
Nouns | demand; demand; demander |
Meaning | Require as useful, just, or proper. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" |
Synonyms | necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for |
Narrower | claim, take, exact; govern; draw; cost; cry out for, cry for; imply, involve |
Contrary | obviate, rid of, eliminate |
Similar to | claim, take, exact |
Nouns | demand; demand |
Meaning | Claim as due or just. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Model | The banks demand the check |
Examples | "The bank demanded payment of the loan" |
Synonyms | exact |
Narrower | command; call, call in |
Broader | claim |
Nouns | demand; demander |
Meaning | Lay legal claim to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | claim |
Similar to | demand |
Meaning | Summon to court. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Broader | summon, summons, cite |
Similar to | demand |
Meaning | Ask to be informed of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "I demand an explanation" |
Broader | request, bespeak, call for, quest |