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say it: di-MAND
demand is a verb and noun meaning "request urgently and forcefully". It is pronounced /dɪˈmænd/ — di-MAND. It carries 11 recorded senses.
require as useful, just, or proper
“It takes nerve to do what she did”
“success usually requires hard work”
“This job asks a lot of patience and skill”
“This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice”
“This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert”
“This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent”
lay legal claim to
summon to court
an urgent or peremptory request
“his demands for attention were unceasing”
the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
“the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips”
“the demand exceeded the supply”
required activity
“the requirements of his work affected his health”
“there were many demands on his time”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for demand come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.