Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The desire to purchase goods and services.

    Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.

    Nachfrage, Bedarf

    спросspros, потре́бностьpotrébnostʹ

    потре́баpotréba, по́питpópyt

    the ability and desire to purchase goods and services

  2. (countable, uncountable)The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.

    Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.

    Demand for the kitchenware with the pastel colorway has been running low lately, at an average of only 37 units per week.

    Nachfrage

    спросspros, потре́бностьpotrébnostʹ

    потре́баpotréba, по́питpópyt

  3. (countable, uncountable)A forceful claim for something.

    Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.

    Anspruch, Forderung

    тре́бованиеtrébovanije, искisk, прете́нзияpretɛ́nzija

    вимо́гаvymóha

  4. (countable, uncountable)A requirement.

    His job makes many demands on his time.

    There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.

    тре́бованиеtrébovanije, нужда́nuždá, необходи́мостьneobxodímostʹ

    вимо́гаvymóha, потре́баpotréba

  5. (countable, uncountable)An urgent request.

    She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.

    an urgent or peremptory request

  6. (countable, uncountable)An order.

    тре́бованиеtrébovanije

  7. (countable, uncountable)More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.

Examples

819 sentences
  1. Have you read my list of demands?

    Ти прочитав мій список із вимогами?

    ruВы прочли мой список требований?

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  2. I demand to know what's going on here.

    Я вимагаю пояснення. Що тут коїться?

    deIch verlange zu erfahren, was hier vor sich geht!

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  3. I demand that you do that right now.

    Я вимагаю, щоб ти це зробив просто зараз.

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  4. Prices depend on supply and demand.

    Цiни залежать вiд попиту та пропозицiї.

    ruЦены зависят от спроса и предложения.

    deDie Preise hängen von Angebot und Nachfrage ab.

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  5. I demand that he be punished.

    Я потребую щоб він був покараний.

    ruЯ требую, чтобы он был наказан.

    deIch verlange, dass er bestraft wird.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
desire to purchase goods and services:
forceful claim for something:
Русский
By meaning 3
desire to purchase goods and services:
forceful claim for something:
need, requirement:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
desire to purchase goods and services:
forceful claim for something:

Origin

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandār

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre. Displaced native Old English ġiwian (“to demand”).

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