demand
Syllables: de·mand/dɪˈmɑːnd//dɪˈmænd/
demand noun: the desire to purchase goods and services.
Noun
demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.
- Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist
- The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
- Demand for the kitchenware with the pastel colorway has been running low lately, at an average of only 37 units per week.
- Antonyms:
- supply
- A forceful claim for something.
- Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- A requirement.
- His job makes many demands on his time.
- There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
- Synonyms:
- call, imposition
- An urgent request.
- She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.
- Synonyms:
- call
- An order.
- 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.
Verb
demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)
- To request forcefully.
- I demand to see the manager.
- The police officer will demand (that) you hand the wallet in.
- To claim a right to something.
- The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal...2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
- To ask forcefully for information.
- I demand an immediate explanation.
- When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
And home to Mary’s house return’d,
Was this demanded—if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 50
- Synonyms:
- frain
- To require of someone.
- This job demands a lot of patience.
- To issue a summons to court.
demand meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
demand in Hindi
- desire to purchase goods and services
- माँग māṅg
- economics: amount a consumer is willing to buy at a particular price
- माँग māṅg
- forceful claim for something
- माँग māṅg
- need, requirement
- तक़ाज़ा taqāzā
demand in Tamil
- தேவை, கிராக்கி, கோரிக்கை
demand in Marathi
- desire to purchase goods and services
- मागणी māgṇī
demand in Urdu
- desire to purchase goods and services
- تَقاضا taqāzā, طَلَب talab
- need, requirement
- تَقاضا taqāzā
- order
- مُطالَبَہ mutālaba
More languagesFewer languages
- demand in Bengali
- চাহিদা cahida, দাবী dabi, তলব tolob, তাগাদা tagada
- demand in Telugu
- పొందగోరు pondagōru, ఆనతి ānati, నిర్భంధించు nirbhandhiñcu
- demand in Malayalam
- ആവശ്യം āvaśyaṁ, അത്യാവശ്യം atyāvaśyaṁ, ആവശ്യപ്പെടുക āvaśyappeṭuka
- demand in Kannada
- ಬೇಡಿಕೆ, ಕೇಳಿಕೆ, ಕೋರಿಕೆ, ತಗಾದೆ
- demand in Punjabi
- منگ maṉg, منگنا maṉgṇā
- demand in Gujarati
- માંગણી māṅgṇī, માંગવું māṅgvũ
- demand in Odia
- ତାକିଦ୍ tākid
- demand in Assamese
- দৰকাৰ dorokar, চাহিদা sahida, বাব babo, গৰজ goroz
- demand in Pashto
- تقاضا taqāzã, طلب talab
- demand in Tagalog
- kahingian
- demand in Arabic
- طَلَب ṭalab, مُطَّلِب muṭṭalib, طَلَبَ ṭalaba
- demand in Malay
- permintaan
- demand in Indonesian
- permintaan
- demand in Thai
- ความต้องการ kwaam-dtɔ̂ng-gaan, อุปสงค์ ù-bpà-sǒng, เรียกร้อง rîiak-rɔ́ɔng, ต้องการ dtɔ̂ng-gaan
- demand in Vietnamese
- nhu cầu, yêu cầu, đòi hỏi, đòi
- demand in Myanmar
- ဝယ်လိုအား wailuia:
Examples of demand in a sentence
- The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
- As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
- The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.
Synonyms of demand
Antonyms
Forms of demand
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | demands |
| alternative form (obsolete) | demaund |
| alternative form (obsolete) | demaunde |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | demands |
| present participle | demanding |
| past participle | demanded |
| past | demanded |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | demandest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | demandedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | demandeth |
Origin of demand
From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre. Displaced native Old English ġiwian (“to demand”).
Words formed from demand
- biochemical oxygen demand
- biological oxygen demand
- composite demand
- counterdemand
- cross elasticity of demand
- cross-price elasticity of demand
- deficient-demand unemployment
- demand account
- demand characteristic
- demand curve
- demand-deficient unemployment
- demand deposit
- demand destruction
- demand draft
- demand-driven
- demand letter
- demand note
- demand paging
- demand partner
- demand planning
- demand-pull inflation
- demand side
- demand valve
- income elasticity of demand
- in demand
- law of demand
- nondemand
- on-demand
- on demand
- overdemand
- oxygen demand
- price elasticity of demand
- print on demand
- print-on-demand
- supply and demand
- theoretical oxygen demand
- redemand
- demandable
- demandee
- undemanded
Phrases with demand
Words that rhyme with demand
Questions about demand
- What does demand mean?
- Demand means the desire to purchase goods and services.
- What is demand in Hindi?
- Demand in Hindi is माँग (māṅg), तक़ाज़ा (taqāzā), माँगना (māṅgnā). See Demand meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is demand?
- Demand can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce demand?
- Demand is pronounced /dɪˈmɑːnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of demand?
- The plural of demand is demands.
Words near demand in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: demand (page history and authors); demand (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); demand (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); منگ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); માંગણી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ତାକିଦ୍ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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