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.
A basic or essential supply.
A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
Unmanufactured material; raw material.
A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
A small pit.
A district granted to an abbey.
Place of supply; source.
The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
A recurring topic or character.
A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
To sort according to its staple.
To secure with a staple.
Fit to be sold; marketable.
Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.