Demand
To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
To call into court; to summon.
To make a demand; to inquire.
The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
Earnest inquiry; question; query.
A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
A thing or amount claimed to be due.
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Demand Quotations
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama
The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack Obama
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry Miller
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard
Demand Translations
demand in Afrikaans is vereis
demand in Danish is fordre
demand in Dutch is opeisen, vereisen, rekenen, eisen
demand in Finnish is vaatia
demand in French is demande, exigeons, exigez, besoin, exiger, exigent
demand in German is Anforderung {f}, abruf, Bedarf, anfordern
demand in Latin is postulo, requiro, exigo
demand in Portuguese is demanda
demand in Spanish is gana, postulado, invitacion
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