DEMAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demand mean? 

• DEMAND (noun)
  The noun DEMAND has 5 senses:

1. an urgent or peremptory request

2. the ability and desire to purchase goods and services

3. required activity

4. the act of demanding

5. a condition requiring relief

  Familiarity information: DEMAND used as a noun is common.

• DEMAND (verb)
  The verb DEMAND has 6 senses:

1. request urgently and forcefully

2. require as useful, just, or proper

3. claim as due or just

4. lay legal claim to

5. summon to court

6. ask to be informed of

  Familiarity information: DEMAND used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An urgent or peremptory request

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

his demands for attention were unceasing

Hypernyms ("demand" is a kind of...):

petition; postulation; request (a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demand"):

challenge (a demand by a sentry for a password or identification)

ultimatum (a final peremptory demand)

insistence; insisting (continual and persistent demands)

call; claim (a demand especially in the phrase)

requisition (the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use)

call (a demand for a show of hands in a card game)

call; margin call (a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement)

pay claim; wage claim (the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives)

Derivation:

demand (request urgently and forcefully)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ability and desire to purchase goods and services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the demand exceeded the supply

Hypernyms ("demand" is a kind of...):

economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth, or, according to Carmine Gorga, Ph.D., author of the book 'The Economic Process', the process of production of real wealth, distribution of ownership rights over real and monetary wealth, and consumption or expenditure of monetary wealth to purchase real wealth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demand"):

consumption; economic consumption; usance; use; use of goods and services ((economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing)

Antonym:

supply (offering goods and services for sale)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Required activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

demand; requirement

Context example:

there were many demands on his time

Hypernyms ("demand" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

Derivation:

demand (require as useful, just, or proper)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of demanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money

Hypernyms ("demand" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demand"):

claim (demand for something as rightful or due)

exaction (act of demanding or levying by force or authority)

Derivation:

demand (request urgently and forcefully)

demand (claim as due or just)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A condition requiring relief

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

demand; need

Context example:

there is a demand for jobs

Hypernyms ("demand" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demand"):

deficiency; lack; want (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable)

necessity (the condition of being essential or indispensable)

Derivation:

demand (require as useful, just, or proper)

• DEMAND (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Request urgently and forcefully

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She demanded to see the manager

Hypernyms (to "demand" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "demand"):

want (wish or demand the presence of)

ask (require or ask for as a price or condition)

dun (persistently ask for overdue payment)

clamor; clamour (make loud demands)

ask; expect; require (consider obligatory; request and expect)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They demand to move

Derivation:

demand (the act of demanding)

demand (an urgent or peremptory request)

demander (a person who makes demands)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Require as useful, just, or proper

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; postulate; require; take

Context example:

This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent

Verb group:

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "demand"):

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

govern (require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood)

draw (require a specified depth for floating)

cost (require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice)

cry for; cry out for (need badly or desperately)

compel (necessitate or exact)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

demand (required activity)

demand (a condition requiring relief)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Claim as due or just

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

demand; exact

Context example:

The bank demanded payment of the loan

Hypernyms (to "demand" is one way to...):

claim (ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "demand"):

command (demand as one's due)

call; call in (demand payment of (a loan))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

The banks demand the check

Derivation:

demand (the act of demanding)

demander (a person who makes demands)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lay legal claim to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "demand" is one way to...):

claim (ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example)

Verb group:

demand (summon to court)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Summon to court

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "demand" is one way to...):

cite; summon; summons (call in an official matter, such as to attend court)

Verb group:

demand (lay legal claim to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Ask to be informed of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

I demand an explanation

Hypernyms (to "demand" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“What?” Wolf Larsen demanded, sharply and imperatively.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Do you know how cold it actually is?" the doctor demanded.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This makes it ideal for cities that have growing demand for public transit, but not enough money to build subways.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)

The plants pump more water through transpiration, the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from leaves, to meet the calcium demand.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

To meet part of the plant's demand for electric energy, a photovoltaic micro-plant was built nearby.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Master Micawber's moroseness of aspect returned upon him again, and he demanded, with some temper, what he was to do?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“How much did the other mug get?” the saloon-keeper demanded.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Why should I give you courage?" demanded Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"And who in hell is Weedon Scott?" the faro-dealer demanded.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In case the coroner should demand it, there would be a formal inquest, necessarily to the same result.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)