demand

Noun
  1. is a type of: petition, postulation, request - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
    subtypes:
    • 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
  2. is a type of: economic process - any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth
    subtypes: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services - (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
  3. is a type of: duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
    same as: requirement
  4. is a type of: activity - any specific behavior
    subtypes:
    • exaction - act of demanding or levying by force or authority
    • claim - demand for something as rightful or due
  5. is a type of: condition, status - a state at a particular time
    subtypes:
    • deficiency, lack, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    • necessity - the condition of being essential or indispensable
    same as: need
Verb
  1. is a type of: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest, request - express the need or desire for
    subtypes:
    • want - wish or demand the presence of
    • ask, expect, require - consider obligatory; request and expect
    • clamor, clamour - make loud demands
    • dun - persistently ask for overdue payment
    • ask - require or ask for as a price or condition
  2. subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take
    verb group: claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
  3. is a type of: claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
    subtypes:
    same as: exact
  4. is a type of: claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
    verb group: demand - summon to court
  5. is a type of: cite, summon, summons - call in an official matter, such as to attend court
    verb group: demand - lay legal claim to
  6. is a type of: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest, request - express the need or desire for

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