Definition of Demand

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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.

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Demand Quotations

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius

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

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
Ann Coulter

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard

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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