basic vs demand

basic

noun
  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. 

  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. 

  • Basic training. 

adj
  • Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. 

  • Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7. 

  • Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool. 

  • Necessary, essential for life or some process. 

demand

noun
  • A requirement. 

  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

How often have the words basic and demand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )