A forceful claim for something.
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 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.
To require of someone.
To claim a right to something.
To ask forcefully for information.
To request forcefully.
To issue a summons to court.
A solemn promise to do something.
The personal property so pledged, to be kept until the debt is paid.
A bailment of personal property to secure payment of a debt without transfer of title.
A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.
A drinking toast.
An asset or person temporarily handed over to guarantee the fulfilment of something promised, under threat of permanent loss of the thing handed over; surety, security, hostage.
A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.
To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
To make a solemn promise (to do something).
To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.