Scrabble?! DEMAND

Definitions of DEMAND in various dictionaries:

noun - an urgent or peremptory request

noun - the ability and desire to purchase goods and services

noun - required activity

noun - the act of demanding

noun - a condition requiring relief

verb - request urgently and forcefully

verb - require as useful, just, or proper

verb - claim as due or just

verb - lay legal claim to

verb - summon to court

verb - ask to be informed of

To ask for urgently or peremptorily: demand an investigation into the murder; demanding that he leave immediately; demanded to speak to the manager.

To claim as just or due: demand repayment of a loan.

To ask to be informed of: I demand a reason for this interruption.

To require as useful, just, proper, or necessary; call for: a gem that demands a fine setting.

Law.

To summon to court.

To make a demand.

The act of demanding.

Something demanded: granted the employees’ demands.

An urgent requirement or need: the heavy demands of her job; the emotional demands of his marriage; an increased oxygen demand.

The state of being sought after: in great demand as a speaker.

Economics.

The desire to possess a commodity or make use of a service, combined with the ability to purchase it.

The amount of a commodity or service that people are ready to buy for a given price: Supply should rise to meet demand.

A coding technique in which a command to read or write is initiated as the need for a new block of data occurs, thus eliminating the need to store data.

A formal claim.

An emphatic question or inquiry.

When presented for payment: a note payable on demand.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to ask for urgently or insistently”: demanding better working conditions; claiming repayment of a debt; exacted obedience from the child; tax payments required by law.

verb - to ask for with authority