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.
To require of someone.
To claim a right to something.
To ask forcefully for information.
To request forcefully.
To issue a summons to court.
That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.
A notarial demand for repayment of a debt.
A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
A call; an invitation; a summons.
A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc.
A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service.
To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies, or transport.