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Definition of Demand

Demand To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care. To call into court; to summon. To make a demand; to inquire. The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. Earnest inquiry; question; query. A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate. The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due. The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person. A thing or amount claimed to be due. Related Definitions: Act, Against, Amount, An, Anything, As, Ask, Asking, Authority, Be, By, Call, Care, Case, Certain, Challenging, Claim, Claimed, Claiming, Company, Court, Creditor, Debt, Demand, Demanding, Desire, Diligent, Due, Earnest, Earnestly, Estate, For, From, Goods, Great, Hence, Hold, Has, In, Inquire, Inquiry, Into, Is, Make, Manifested, Manner, May, Necessary, Need, Note, Obedience, Of, On, One, Or, Payable, Peremptorily, Peremptory, Person, Possess, Query, Question, Request, Require, Requisition, Right, Search, Seek, Seeking, Something, Summon, That, The, Thing, Title, To, Urgent, Urgently, Urging, Useful, Virtue, Want, What, Which, With

Demand Quotations No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. Bertolt Brecht There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right. Terence The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Ralph Waldo Emerson Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Charles Caleb Colton The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Friedrich Nietzsche

Demand Translations demand in Afrikaans is vereis demand in Danish is fordre demand in Dutch is opeisen, vereisen, rekenen, eisen demand in Finnish is vaatia demand in French is demande, exigeons, exigez, besoin, exiger, exigent demand in German is Anforderung {f}, abruf, Bedarf, anfordern demand in Latin is postulo, requiro, exigo demand in Portuguese is demanda demand in Spanish is gana, postulado, invitacion

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