A forceful claim for something.
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 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.
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.