Definition of demand

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Demand (v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand..

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Satisfy :: Satisfy (a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution..
Keelage :: Keelage (n.) The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll..
Extravagance :: Extravagance (n.) The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands..
Take :: Take (v. t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat..
Rogation :: Rogation (n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree..
Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits..
Compromise :: Compromise (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement..
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) A claim or demand.
Sciscitation :: Sciscitation (n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
Require :: Require (v. t.) To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements..
Collection :: Collection (n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand..
Conjurement :: Conjurement (n.) Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
Discount :: Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted..
Importune :: Importune (v. i.) To require; to demand.
Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope..
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority..
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