Definition of demand

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Demand (v. t.) Earnest inquiry; question; query.

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Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
Yield :: Yield (v. t.) To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc..
Demand :: Demand (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience..
Charge :: Charge (v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods..
Recede :: Recede (v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition..
Exorbitancy :: Exorbitancy (n.) A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands..
Flagitation :: Flagitation (n.) Importunity; urgent demand.
Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary..
Collect :: Collect (v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes..
Require :: Require (v. t.) To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property..
Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand..
Tender :: Tender (v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt..
Concession :: Concession (n.) The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous..
Option :: Option (n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit..
Claim :: Claim (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due..
Press :: Press (n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements..
Acquittance :: Acquittance (n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand..
Trespass :: Trespass (v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another..
Demanding :: Demanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deman.
Mand :: Mand (n.) A demand.
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