demand vs pressure

demand

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

pressure

noun
  • Urgency 

  • A pressing; a force applied to a surface. 

  • Distress. 

  • The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area. 

  • A contrasting force or impulse of any kind 

verb
  • To encourage or heavily exert force or influence. 

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