demand
Noun
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is a type of: petition, postulation, request - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authoritysubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: economic process - any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealthsubtypes: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services - (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
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is a type of: duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that forcesame as: requirement
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is a type of: activity - any specific behavior
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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
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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
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is a type of: claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for examplesame as: exact
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is a type of: claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for exampleverb group: demand - summon to court
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verb group: demand - lay legal claim to
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