The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
An urgent request.
The desire to purchase goods and services.
An order.
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.
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 strong liking or personal valuation.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
The state of being preferred over others.
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.