demand for explanation

1. 1.

   a challenge to defend what someone has said

   Synonymscalling into question

   Broaderchallenge

Questions about demand for explanation

What does demand for explanation mean?

demand for explanation means "a challenge to defend what someone has said".

What is another word for demand for explanation?

Close synonyms include calling into question. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is demand for explanation a common word?

demand for explanation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.