demand

Noun
  1. An urgent or peremptory request (synset 107205939)
    "his demands for attention were unceasing"
    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. The ability and desire to purchase goods and services (synset 113482365)
    "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply"
    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. Required activity (synset 105901258)
    "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time"
    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. The act of demanding (synset 101063257)
    "the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money"
    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. A condition requiring relief (synset 114472592)
    "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
    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. Request urgently and forcefully (synset 200756987)
    "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager"
    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. Require as useful, just, or proper (synset 202634015)
    "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
    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. Claim as due or just (synset 201019835)
    "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
    is a type of: claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
    subtypes:
    same as: exact
  4. Lay legal claim to (synset 201071112)
    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. Summon to court (synset 201071007)
    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. Ask to be informed of (synset 201020074)
    "I demand an explanation"
    is a type of: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest, request - express the need or desire for

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