1. Request urgently and forcefully
   "She demanded to see the manager"; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"
    
2. Claim as due or just
   "The bank demanded payment of the loan";
   - exact
    
3. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice";
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for
    
4. Lay legal claim to
   "The heir demanded his inheritance"
    
5. Summon (someone) to appear in court
   "The witness was demanded to appear before the judge"
    
6. Ask to be informed of
   "I demand an explanation"

1. An urgent or peremptory request
   "his demands for attention were unceasing"
    
2. The ability and desire to purchase goods and services
   "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply"
    
3. Required activity
   "there were many demands on his time";
   - requirement
    
4. The act of demanding
   "the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money"
    
5. A condition requiring relief
   "there is a demand for jobs";
   - need

Derived forms: demands, demanding, demanded

Type of: activity, ask for, bear on, bespeak, call for, cite, claim, concern, condition, duty, economic process, have to do with, obligation, pertain, petition, postulation, refer, relate, request, responsibility, status, summon, summons, touch, touch on

Antonym: supply

Encyclopedia: Demand, Thomas