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.
To require of someone.
To claim a right to something.
To ask forcefully for information.
To request forcefully.
To issue a summons to court.
An order or a decision on a point of law from someone in authority.
That rules; predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.