1. • 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
2. • 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 verbs 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.
3. • v - to ask for with authority

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