Crossword-Solution: DEMAND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Demand | v. t. | 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. |
| Demand | v. t. | To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. |
| Demand | v. t. | To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care. |
| Demand | v. t. | To call into court; to summon. |
| Demand | v. i. | To make a demand; to inquire. |
| Demand | v. t. | 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. |
| Demand | v. t. | Earnest inquiry; question; query. |
| Demand | v. t. | 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. |
| Demand | v. t. | That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate. |
| Demand | v. t. | The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due. |
| Demand | v. t. | The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person. |
| Demand | v. t. | A thing or amount claimed to be due. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEMAND | anagram | DAMNED, MADDEN |
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Sentences with DEMAND (5)
The high oil prices of the early 1980s contributed to a substantial increase in per capita income, stimulated domestic demand, reinforced migration from rural to urban areas, and raised the level of real wages to among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch’s robe.
Miss Kronborg has a sympathetic voice, and I think there would be a good deal of demand for her at funerals.
Loud demand from the educational community, chiefly from teachers working with the upper grades of elementary school through high school, greeted the announcement that AM would be tested around the country.
Hundreds of library OPACS may be searched, and those with accounts set up at CARL may use UnCover to find articles of interest, which then may be faxed on demand.
Quotes with DEMAND (3)
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it may be; (2) rejects welfare campaigns that seek more “humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather); and (3) regards veganism, or the complete rejection of the consumpt…
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 80 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).