demand vs option

demand

noun
  • An order. 

  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

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

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • 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. 

option

noun
  • One of a set of choices that can be made. 

  • A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile. 

  • The freedom or right to choose. 

  • The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another. 

verb
  • To purchase an option on something. 

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