demand🔊

The desire to purchase goods and services.

(economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.

A forceful claim for something.

A requirement.

An urgent request.

An order.

(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.

To request forcefully.

To claim a right to something.

To ask forcefully for information.

To require of someone.

(law) To issue a summons to court.