From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin demando.

• (RP) IPA: /dɪˈmɑːnd/
• (America) IPA: /dɪˈmænd/, /dəˈmænd/

demand

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.

   Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.

2. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.

   Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.

   • 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 ↗:

     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 for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.

4. 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.

5. An urgent request.

   She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.

6. An order.
7. (electricity supply) 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.

• (a requirement) imposition

• French: demande
• German: Nachfrage, Bedarf
• Italian: domanda, richiesta
• Portuguese: demanda, pedido
• Russian: спрос
• Spanish: demanda

• French: demande
• German: Nachfrage
• Italian: domanda
• Portuguese: demanda
• Russian: спрос
• Spanish: demanda

• German: Anspruch
• Italian: richiesta, rivendicazione
• Russian: тре́бование

• Italian: bisogno
• Russian: тре́бование

• Italian: necessità

• French: exigence
• Italian: esigenza
• Portuguese: solicitação, demanda
• Russian: тре́бование
• Spanish: exigencia

• Italian: domanda

demand (demands, present participle demanding; simple past and past participle demanded)

1. To request forcefully.

   I demand to see the manager.

2. To claim a right to something.

   The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.

3. To ask forcefully for information.

   I demand an immediate explanation.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, Canto XXXI, page 50 ↗:

     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?

4. To require of someone.

   This job demands a lot of patience.

5. (legal) To issue a summons to court.

• call for
• insist
• (ask strongly) frain

• French: exiger
• German: verlangen, bestehen (auf etwas)
• Italian: esigere, pretendere
• Portuguese: demandar, exigir
• Russian: тре́бовать
• Spanish: exigir, demandar

• Russian: предъявлять требование

• Russian: тре́бовать

• Russian: тре́бовать

• Spanish: demandar