What is the meaning of demand?

noun

• An urgent or peremptory request.
  • usage: "his demands for attention were unceasing"
• The ability and desire to purchase goods and services.
  • usage: "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply"
• Required activity.
  • usage: "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time"
  • synonyms: requirement
• The act of demanding.
  • usage: "the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money"
• A condition requiring relief.
  • usage: "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
  • synonyms: need

verb

• Request urgently and forcefully.
  • usage: "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager"
• Require as useful, just, or proper.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for
• Claim as due or just.
  • usage: "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
  • synonyms: exact
• Lay legal claim to.
• Summon to court.
• Ask to be informed of.
  • usage: "I demand an explanation"