demand
pronunciation
How to pronounce demand in British English:
UK [dɪˈmɑːnd]
How to pronounce demand in American English:
US [dɪˈmænd]
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- Noun:
- the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
- an urgent or peremptory request
- a condition requiring relief
- the act of demanding
- required activity
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- Verb:
- request urgently and forcefully
- require as useful, just, or proper
- claim as due or just
- lay legal claim to
- summon to court
- ask to be informed of
Word Origin
- demand
- demand: [13] Latin dēmandāre meant ‘entrust something to someone’. It was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and mandāre ‘entrust, commit’ (source of English mandate). As it passed via Old French demander into English, its meaning developed to ‘give someone the responsibility of doing something’, and finally ‘order’.=> mandate
- demand (v.)
- late 14c., "ask, make inquiry," from Old French demander (12c.) "to request; to demand," from Latin demandare "entrust, charge with a commission" (in Vulgar Latin, "to ask, request, demand"), from de- "completely" (see de-) + mandare "to order" (see mandate). Meaning "to ask for as a right" is early 15c., from Anglo-French legal use. Related: Demanded; demanding.
- demand (n.)
- late 13c., "a question," from Old French demande (see demand (v.)). Meaning "a request, claim" is from c. 1300. In the political economy sense (correlating to supply) it is attested from 1776 in Adam Smith.
Example
- 1. Loan demand is still falling .
- 2. They must reduce domestic demand .
- 3. That demand is undoubtedly enormous .
- 4. Fiscal stimulus to aggregate demand .
- 5. And demand is rising quickly .